Quick Definition
a meat-market
Strong's Definition
a butcher's stall, meat market or provision-shop
Derivation: of Latin origin (macellum);
KJV Usage: shambles
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μάκελλον, 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): 1Co_10:2; 1Co_10:5. (Dio Cassius, 6 1, 18 τήν ἀγοράν τῶν ὀψων, τό μάκελλον; (Plutarch, ii., p. 277 d. (quaest. Rom. 54)).)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μάκελλον makellon 1x
meat market, marketplace, slaughter house, 1Co_10:25
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† μάκελλον , -ου , τό
(Lat. macellum),
a meat-market: 1Co_10:25 ( v. Deiss., LAE , 274; MM, xvi).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μάκελλον [page 386]
For this NT ἅπ . εἰρ .( 1Co_10:25 ) see Magn 179 .21 (ii/A.D.) παραπράσεις τε ποιήσαντα ἐν τῷ μακέλλῳ παντὸς εἴδους : cf. CP Herm I. 127 3 verso .5 ἐντὸς μακέλλου , and C. and B. ii. 549 (= p. 646) ἡ γερουσία τὰ ζυγοστάσια πρὸς τῷ μακέλλῳ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ποιήσαντα , where the editor notes that Makellon here evidently denotes the provision market, Latin macellum. [The ζυγοστάσια was the place where weights were officially tested.] The word is Semitic in origin (cf. Heb. ξΔλΐμΘδ , enclosure ), and appears in Ionic and Laconian; cf. Μάκελλα in Sicily. But the Lat. macellum is the most familiar form.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μάκελλον μάκελλον, ου, τό, "the meat-market, shambles", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μάκελλον, -ου, τό (Lat. macellum),
a meat-market: 1Co.10:25 (see Deiss., LAE, 274; MM, xvi).†
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