1. marketplace, public square — An open public space in a Greco-Roman town serving as the commercial and social center where goods were bought and sold, people gathered, children played (Matthew 11:16, Luke 7:32), and religious leaders sought greetings and prominence (Matthew 23:7, Mark 12:38, Luke 11:43, 20:46); also where idle laborers waited for hire (Matthew 20:3) and Paul debated daily (Acts 17:17). Spanish uses both plaza and mercado, Arabic renders it الأَسْواقِ/سوقِ (suq, 'market'), Korean uses 장터/시장 (market), Hindi बाज़ार (bazar), Swahili soko/masoko. The two clusters differ only in grammatical number: plural dative (S61191) versus singular forms (S61192), with no semantic distinction. 11×
AR["-الـ-سُّوقِ","أَسواقِ","الأَسواقِ","الأَسْواقِ","السّوقِ","سوقِ"]·ben["-সমাজগৃহে","বাজারে","বাজারের","হাটে"]·DE["Marktplatz","ἀγοραῖς","ἀγορᾶς"]·EN["marketplace","marketplaces"]·FR["place-du-marché"]·heb["הַשְּׁוָקִים","הַשּׁוּק","שְׁוָקִים","שׁוָקִים","שׁוּק","שׁוּקִים"]·HI["और","बअज़अरोन-मेइन","बज़अर","बाज़ार","बाज़ार-में","बाज़ारों"]·ID["pasar","pasar-pasar"]·IT["piazza"]·jav["pasar","pasar,","pasar-pasar","peken","peken,"]·KO["광장에서","시장","시장들","시장들에서","시장에서","시장으로","장터","장터들","장터들에","장터들에서"]·PT["mercado","praça","praças"]·RU["площади","площадь","площадях","рынка"]·ES["mercado","plaza","plazas"]·SW["masoko","na","soko","soko,","sokoni","wavivu"]·TR["meydanlara","pazardan","pazarlarda","çarşıda","çarşılarda","çarşıya"]·urd["بازار","بازاروں","پکارتے-ہیں"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἀγορά [ᾰγ], ᾶς, Ionic dialect ἀγορή, ῆς, ἡ, (ἀγείρω):— assembly, especially of the People, opposed to the Council of Chiefs, Refs 8th c.BC+; τοῖσιν δ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἀγοραὶ βουληφόροι (i.e. Κυκλώπεσσι) Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀ. Πυλάτιδες, of the Amphictyonic Council at Pylae, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀγορήνδε καλέσσασθαι, κηρύσσειν, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀγορὴν ποιήσασθαι, θέσθαι, Refs 8th c.BC+; εἰς ἀ. ἰέναι, ἀγέρεσθαι,Refs…