Word Summary
emporion: a trading place
Original Word: ἐμπόριονTransliteration: emporion
Phonetic Spelling: (em-por'-ee-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a trading place
Meaning: a trading place
Strong's Concordance
a market
Neuter from emporos; a mart ("emporium") -- merchandise.
see GREEK emporos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1712: ἐμπόριονἐμπόριον (see
ἐν, III. 3),
ἐμπορίου,
τό (
ἔμπορος),
a place where trade is carried on, especially
a seaport; a mart, emporium; (
Pliny,
forumnundinarium):
οἶκος ἐμπορίου a market house (epexegetical genitive (
Winers Grammar, § 59, 8 a.;
A. V. a house of merchandise)),
John 2:16. (From
Herodotus down; the
Sept..)