Any place of public resort, and hence a public place or broad street (Matt. 11:16; This unified study connects 3 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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properly, the town-square (as a place of public resort)
by implication, a market or thoroughfare
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
מַרְכֹּ֫לֶת
H4819
Transliteration
markôleth
Pronunciation
mar-ko'-leth
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
1
Glosses
place of trade, market-place, merchandise.
Lexicon definition
a mart
Complete dictionary entries
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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 (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."