Marketplace Market
Marketplace Market [1]
Market, Marketplace. The former is found in Ot in Ezekiel 27:13; Ezekiel 27:17 etc. as the rendering of a collective noun signifying ‘articles of exchange,’ hence Rv [Note: Revised Version.] throughout ‘ merchandise ,’ this last in Ezekiel 27:15 being Av [Note: Authorized Version.] rendering of another word for which Rv [Note: Revised Version.] gives ‘ mart .’ In Nt ‘market’ has disappeared from Rv [Note: Revised Version.] in favour of the uniform ‘marketplace’ (Gr. agora ). Here we must distinguish between the ‘markets’ of Jerusalem ( Matthew 11:16 , Mark 7:4 etc.), which were simply streets of shops the ‘bazaars’ of a modern Eastern city, and the ‘market’ (Av [Note: Authorized Version.] ) or ‘marketplace’ (Rv [Note: Revised Version.] ) of a Greek city ( Acts 16:19; Acts 17:17 ). The latter was the centre of the public life of the city, and was a large open space adorned with colonnades and statues, and surrounded by temples and other public buildings.
