agorazō · buy

What it means

agorazō (ἀγοράζω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “buy”.

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. To give money in exchange for something, at the market or to its owner.
2. To pay the price to rescue someone.

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

How it is translated

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

• buy ×13
• bought ×12
• buying ×3
• buys ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×5
• Luke×5
• John×3
• 1 Corinthians×3
• 2 Peter×1
• Revelation×6

• Matthew 13:44

  The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid; and in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

• Matthew 13:46

  and finding one very valuable pearl, he went away and sold all that he had and bought it.

• Matthew 14:15

  When evening came, the disciples came to him, saying, “The place is deserted, and the hour has already passed; send the crowds away, so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

• Matthew 21:12

  And Jesus entered into the temple and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

• Matthew 25:9

  But the wise answered, saying, ‘No; otherwise there will certainly not be enough for us and for you; go instead to those who sell and buy for yourselves.’

• Matthew 25:10

  And while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

• Matthew 27:7

  And after taking counsel, they bought with them the Potter’s Field as a burial place for the foreigners.

• Mark 6:36

  send them away, so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

• Mark 6:37

  But he answered and said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they say to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii’ worth of bread and give them it to eat?”

• Mark 11:15

  And they come to Jerusalem. And entering into the temple, he began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

• Mark 15:46

  And having bought a linen cloth, he took him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

• Mark 16:1

  And when the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.

• Luke 9:13

  But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

• Luke 14:18

  And they all began alike to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I have need to go out and see it; I ask you, have me excused.’

• Luke 14:19

  And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; I ask you, have me excused.’

• Luke 17:28

  Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

• Luke 22:36

  And he said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise also a bag; and let the one who does not have one sell his cloak and buy a sword.

• John 4:8

  For his disciples had gone away into the town to buy food.

• John 6:5

  So when Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he says to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread so that these people may eat?”

• John 13:29

  For some thought that, since Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

• 1 Corinthians 6:20

  For you were bought at a price. So glorify God in your body.

• 1 Corinthians 7:23

  You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

• 1 Corinthians 7:30

  and those who weep as though they did not weep, and those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, and those who buy as though they did not possess,

• 2 Peter 2:1

  But there were also false prophets among the people, as also among you there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in parties of destruction, even denying the Sovereign who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

• Revelation 3:18

  I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white clothes so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be exposed, and salve to put on your eyes so that you may see.

• Revelation 5:9

  And they sing a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slaughtered, and by your blood you bought for God people from every tribe and language and people and nation;

• Revelation 13:17

  and that no one may be able to buy or to sell except the one who has the mark, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

• Revelation 14:3

  And they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred forty four thousand, who had been bought from the earth.

• Revelation 14:4

  These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought from among humanity as firstfruits for God and for the Lamb,

• Revelation 18:11

  And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any longer,