Agora denotes a public market setting where people gather, work, converse, receive greetings, or seek help.

The term consistently identifies a public market setting: a place where people may stand idle, gather children, exchange greetings, reason with others, bring the sick, or be taken before rulers.

1. Public market setting · dominant

   The dative forms place children sitting and calling in the setting in Luke 7:32, workers standing idle in Matthew 20:3, and daily reasoning with those present in Acts 17:17. The same setting is associated with greetings in Luke 11:43 and Mark 12:38, with sick people being laid there in Mark 6:56, and with Paul and Silas being dragged there before rulers in Acts 16:19.

   Luke 7:32Matthew 20:3Acts 17:17Luke 11:43Mark 6:56Acts 16:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the occurrences, the APB regularly uses “marketplace” for the setting, including scenes of greetings, discussion, idle workers, sick people, and public action. These renderings confirm the verse-level setting rather than establish finer distinctions for the term.