Quick Definition
μάκελλον, ου, τό n.n. a meat-market
Strong's Definition
a butcher's stall, meat market or provision-shop
Derivation: of Latin origin (macellum);
KJV Usage: shambles
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μάκελλον, -ov, τό, a Lat. word, macellum [prob. akin to pax-n; Vaniéek p. 687 (cf. Plut. as below) ], a place where meatand other articles of food are sold, meat-market, provision-market, [A. V. shambles]: 1Co. x. 25. (Dio Cass. 61, 18 τὴν ἀγορὰν τῶν ὄψων, τὸ μάκελλον; [Plut. ii. p. 277 ἃ. (quaest. Rom. 54) ].)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μάκελλον makellon 1x
meat market, marketplace, slaughter house, 1 Cor. 10:25*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† μάκελλον, -ου, τό (Lat. macellum), a meat-market: I Co 10:25 (v. Deiss., LAE, 274; MM, xvi).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μάκελλον. For this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (1 Cor 107°) see A/agn 1797! (ii/A.D.) | | (A.D. 226-7) (= III. p. 151) μακρὸς πύκτης, ‘a tall boxer.” | The compd. μακροπρόσωπος is common in personal descripTapatpaces τε ποιήσαντα ἐν TH μακέλλῳ παντὸς εἴδους : οἵ. CP Herm I. 127 3 verso® ἐντὸς μακέλλον, and C, and B, ii. 549 (=p. 646) ἡ γερουσία ta ζυγοστάσια πρὸς τῷ μακέλλῳ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ποιήσαντα, where the editor notes | | plexion, long-visaged.”’ | pakpvs, ‘far,’ “distant.” that ‘‘ Afakellon here evidently denotes the provision market, ἢ [The ζυγοστάσια was the place where The word is Semitic in Latin macellum. weights were officially tested. | origin (cf. Heb. ΠΟΘ), “ἐ ρῃρίοβαγε ᾽), and appears in [onic and Laconian ; cf. Μάκελλα in Sicily. /um is the most familiar form. But the Lat. mace/- | (vi/A.D.) μακροχρονιεῖν (cf. pakpoxpovitw Deut 172°, 327).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
μάκελλον (makellon) — meat market. μάκελλον, τό, enclosure, [Refs 4th c.BC+]:— also μάκελλος, ὁ, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μάκελος, ὁ, and plural μακέλα, μάκελλα, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
II. μάκελλος, ὁ, = Latin macellum, market, [NT+1st c.BC+]:—hence μακελλάριος, ὁ, = Latin macellarius, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; = laniator, lanio, [Refs]: neuter μακελλάριον, τό, [Refs 6th c.AD+].