agora · marketplace

What it means

agora (ἀγορά) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “marketplace”.

Public square: the town's meeting place.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The open place in town where people gather and trade.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• marketplaces ×6
• marketplace ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×3
• Luke×3
• Acts×2

• Matthew 11:16

  But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call out to the others,

• Matthew 20:3

  And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle;

• Matthew 23:7

  and the greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by people.

• Mark 6:56

  And wherever he went, into villages or into towns or into the countryside, they were laying the sick in the marketplaces, and begging him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched him were made well.

• Mark 7:4

  and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they immerse themselves; and there are many other things that they have received to hold to, immersions of cups and pitchers and copper pots and dining couches.)

• Mark 12:38

  And in his teaching he was saying, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and to receive greetings in the marketplaces

• Luke 7:32

  They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, who say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a lament, and you did not weep.’

• Luke 11:43

  Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the first seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.

• Luke 20:46

  “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and hold dear greetings in the marketplaces and the first seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets,

• Acts 16:19

  But when her masters saw that the hope of their profit had gone out, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

• Acts 17:17

  So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.