Word Summary
makellon: a meat market
Original Word: μάκελλονTransliteration: makellon
Phonetic Spelling: (mak'-el-lon)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a meat market
Meaning: a meat market
Strong's Concordance
a meat market, food market
Of Latin origin (macellum); a butcher's stall, meat market or provision-shop -- shambles.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3111: μάκελλονμάκελλον,
μακελλου,
τό, a Latin word,
macellum (probably akin to
μάχη;
Vanicek, p. 687 (cf.
Plutarch, as below)), a place where meat and other articles of food are sold,
meat-market, provision-market, (
A. V. shambles):
1 Corinthians 10:2, 5. (
Dio Cassius, 6 1, 18
τήν ἀγοράν τῶν ὀψων,
τό μάκελλον; (
Plutarch, ii., p. 277 d. (quaest. Rom. 54)).)