Marketplace

"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 (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" (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."