Mart
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To traffic.
(2): ( n.) The god Mars.
(3): ( n.) Battle; contest.
(4): ( n.) A market.
(5): ( n.) A bargain.
(6): ( v. t.) To buy or sell in, or as in, a mart.
King James Dictionary [2]
M`ART, n. from market. A place of sale or traffick. It was formerly applied chiefly to markets and fairs in cities and towns, but it has now a more extensive application. We say, the United States are a principal mart for English goods England and France are the marts of American cotton.
1. Bargain purchase and sale. Not used.
M`ART, To buy and sell to traffick. Not used.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
MART. See Market.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
( סָחָר , Sachar', Isaiah 23:3; also spoken of what is gained from traffic, Profit, wealth, "merchandise," Proverbs 3:14; Isaiah 45:14), a trading-place or emporium. The root signifies to travel about as traders, buying and selling; thus pointing out at once the general character of the commerce of the East from the earliest age to the present. (See Commerce); (See Market); (See Merchant).
