ἀγορά
agora
“marketplace”
Definition
probably akin to G1453 (ἐγείρω)); properly, the town-square (as a place of public resort); by implication, a market or thoroughfare
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
ἀγορά appears 11 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.
Woe to you Pharisees! You love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another:‘We played the flute for you,and you did not dance;we sang a dirge,and you did not weep.’
About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
In His teaching Jesus also said, “Watch out for the scribes. They like to walk around in long robes, to receive greetings in the marketplaces,
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