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What is a Marketplace?
        MARKETPLACE or MAR'KET
        The market of an ancient Greek or Roman town occupied generally one side of an area, the other sides being occupied by public buildings, temples, courts, and offices of various kinds. Laws were promulgated here; judicial investigations were instituted; questions of philosophy and public interest were discussed; and all kinds of trade and business were carried on. It was frequented by business-men and by crowds of idlers and loungers. In a strictly Oriental city, such as Jerusalem, the market had not, like the forum, this character of being the centre of all public life. Still, it was always a lively place, generally situated just within the gate, and the principal scene of trade and traffic. In the O.T. this word occurs only once, Eze 27:3; in the N.T. oftener. Matt 23:7:Mark 12:38; Luke 11:43; Luke 20:46; Acts 16:19, etc., and we learn from Matt 20:3 that not only were all kinds of produce offered for sale here, but hither resorted also the laborers to find employment.


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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'marketplace' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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