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Greek Lessons
- Following the Teacher: Aorist Participles, Future Intentions, and Conditional Clauses
- Two Witnesses: Pronouns, Participles, and Present Tense in John 8:18
- Blind Minds and Hardened Hearts: Koine Simplicity versus Classical Subtlety
- The Witness Within: Spirit and Identity in Paul’s Koine Expression
- The Grammar of Good Ground: Parsing Luke 8:15
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Tag Archives: conventus forenses
ἀγοραῖος, ἀγοραῖοι
ἀγοραῖος, ἀγοραῖοι: (1) in, of or belonging to the market place (2) frequenting the market place (a) hucksters, petty traffickers, retail dealers (b) idlers, loungers, the common sort, low, mean vulgar (3) generally, proper to the assembly, suited to forensic speaking, business-like transactions
Part of Speech: adjective
Latin: (1) de vulgo (2) conventus forenses
Syriac: ܫܘܩܐ (street, bazaar, marketplace, square)
Acts 17:5ζηλωσαντες δε οι απειθουντες ιουδαιοι και προσλαβομενοι των αγοραιων τινας ανδρας πονηρους και οχλοποιησαντες εθορυβουν την πολιν επισταντες τε τη οικια ιασονος εζητουν αυτους αγαγειν εις τον δημον
KJV But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.… Learn Koine Greek