Meaning
Market-place any place of public resort, and hence a public place or broad street (Matt 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 Ezek 27:13.
In early times markets were held at the gates of cities, where commodities were exposed for sale (2Kings 7:18). In large towns the sale of particular articles See ms to have been confined to certain streets, as we may infer from such expressions as "the bakers' street" (Jer 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."
