King James Bible Dictionary

A place for general merchandise.

Held at gates
Gates

Judgment seat at
Acts 16:19

Traffic of, in Tyre
Ezekiel 27:13-25
Gates

M'ARKET, noun [Latin mercatus, from mercor, to buy.]

1. A public place in a city or town, where provisions or cattle are exposed to sale; an appointed place for selling and buying at private sale, a distinguished from an auction.

2. A public building in which provisions are exposed to sale; a market-house.

3. Sale; the exchange of provisions or goods for money; purchase or rate of purchase and sale. The seller says he comes to a bad market when the buyer says he comes to a good market We say, the markets are low or high; by which we understand the price or rate of purchase. We say that commodities find a quick or ready market; markets are dull. We are not able to find a market for our goods or provisions.

4. Place of sale; as the British market; the American market

5. The privilege of keeping a public market

M'ARKET, verb intransitive To deal in market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

(Acts 28:15) In the Revised Version for Appii Forum of the Authorized Version, which see.

M'ARKETABLE, noun That may be sold; salable.

1. Current in market; as marketable value.

M'ARKET-BELL, noun The bell that gives notice of the time or day of market.

M'ARKET-CROSS, noun A cross set up where a market is held.

M'ARKET-DAY, noun The day of a public market.

M'ARKET-FOLKS, noun People that come to the market.

M'ARKET-HOUSE, noun A building for a public market.

M'ARKET-MAID, noun A woman that brings things to market.

M'ARKET-MAN, noun A man that brings things to market.

Any place of public resort, and hence a public place or broad street (Matthew 11:16; 20:3), as well as a forum or market-place proper, where goods were exposed for sale, and where public assemblies and trials were held (Acts 16:19; 17:17). This word occurs in the Old Testament only in Ezekiel 27:13.

In early times markets were held at the gates of cities, where commodities were exposed for sale (2 Kings 7:18). In large towns the sale of particular articles seems to have been confined to certain streets, as we may infer from such expressions as "the bakers' street" (Jeremiah 37:21), and from the circumstance that in the time of Josephus the valley between Mounts Zion and Moriah was called the Tyropoeon or the "valley of the cheesemakers."

M'ARKET-PLACE, noun The place where provisions or goods are exposed to sale.

(Matthew 20:3; Mark 12:38; Luke 7:35; Acts 16:19) (any open place of public resort in cities or towns where public trials and assemblies were held and goods were exposed for sale. "The market-places or bazaars of the East were, and are at this day, the constant resort of unoccupied people, the idle, the news-mongers."

Hackett s Ill. S.S.

ED.)

M'ARKET-PRICE

M'ARKET-RATE, noun The current price of commodities at any given time.

M'ARKET-TOWN, noun A town that has the privilege of a stated public market.

M'ARKET-WOMAN, noun A woman that brings things to market or that attends a market for selling any thing.