agoraios

Strong’sG60

a lounger in the market-place

stem agorai-2 times in the New Testament2 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

* ἀγοραῖος, -ον

(< ἀγορά),

1. frequenting the ἀγορά, a lounger in the ἀγορά (Xen., al.): Ac 17:5.

2. In late writers (Strab., al.), proper to the ἀγορά: ἀγοραῖοι (sc. ἥμεραι) ἀγονται (cf. Lat. conventus agere), court-days are kept, Ac 19:38 (for exx. of both usages, v. MM, VGT, s.v.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G60 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidag-or-ah'-yos

relating to the market-place, i.e. forensic (times); by implication, vulgar

Fromfrom G58;

King Jamesbaser sort, low.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀγοραῖος [ᾰγ], ον,
(feminine -αία epithet of Artemis and Athena, see below):— in, of, or belonging to the ἀγορά, Ζεὺς Ἀ. as guardian of popular assemblies, Refs 5th c.BC+; Ἑρμῆς Ἀ. as patron of traffic, Refs 5th c.BC+; Ἄρτεμις Ἀ. at Olympia, Refs; Ἀθηνᾶ Ἀ. at Sparta, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 of things, τὰ ἀ. details of market-business, Refs 5th c.BC+
II frequenting the market, ὁ ἀ. ὄχλοςRefs 5th c.BC+ —ἀγοραῖοι (with or without ἄνθρωποι), οἱ, those who frequented the ἀγορά, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἔμποροι, Refs 5th c.BC+, but = traders (i.e. sutlers), Refs 2nd c.AD+:—hence, the common sort, low fellows, Refs 5th c.BC+; of agitators, NT+1st c.AD+: comparative, the baser sort, Refs 1st c.BC+. adverb -αίως, λέγεινRefs 1st c.BC+
II.2 of things, vulgar, σκώμματαRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. φιλία (opposed to ἐλευθέριος) Refs 4th c.BC+; common, ἄρτοιRefs 2nd c.AD+
III generally, proper to the ἀγορά, skilled in, suited for forensic speaking, Refs 1st c.AD+ —ἀγοραος (i.e. ἡμέρα) court-day, assize, τὰς ἀ. ποιεῖσθαιRefs 1st c.BC+; ἄγειν τὴν ἀ. Epist. Galb. cited in NT+1st c.AD+adverb -ως in forensic style, Refs 1st c.AD+
III.2 ἀγοραῖος, ὁ, = tabellio, notary, Refs 2nd c.AD+; also, pleader, advocate, in plural, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III.2.b ἀγοραῖος, ἡ, market-day, Refs vulgar, ἀγοραῖος public speaker, drawn by Refs 5th c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

courts1×marketplace1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	agoraios	agoraias	agoraiem	agoraiois	agoraiais1×ἀγοραῖοι	agoraieim
object accusative	agoraion	agoraian		agoraioin	agoraiain
direct address vocative	agoraior	agoraiar		agoraioir	agoraiair
of, belonging to genitive	agoraiou	agoraiau	agoraieu	agoraioiu1×ἀγοραίων	agoraiaiu	agoraieiu
to, for dative	agoraio	agoraia	agoraie	agoraioi	agoraiai	agoraiei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

agoraistem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

agorai is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

agoraioiu“marketplace”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Acts 17:5… de tois Ioudaiois kai proslaberantois toiu agoraioiu androin tinoin ponēroin kai ochlopoiarantois thorubale …… brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the …

agoraiais“courts”subjectnominative plural1×

Acts 19:38… auto technitois echalō pros tinon logon, agoraiais agolō kai anthupatois alō, enkalalōr allēloi.… have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open and proconsuls are available …