to buy
Agorazo denotes acquiring something by purchase, from food and property to people described as bought at a price.
The verb most often denotes ordinary purchasing or obtaining items such as food, bread, land, animals, linen, spices, and market goods. In several clauses it is applied to people being bought, with a price, blood, or a stated source marking the acquisition.
Senses in use
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Purchasing goods, food, or property · dominant
The active forms occur in practical transactions: disciples propose obtaining food or bread in John 6:5 and Mark 6:37, and the APB renders the clauses "buy bread" and "buy two hundred denarii worth of bread." The same purchase action concerns a field in Matthew 13:44, linen in Mark 15:46, and cargo that traders can no longer obtain in Revelation 18:11.
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Acquiring people as bought ones · common
Passive forms describe groups as having been bought: in 1 Corinthians 6:20 the APB renders, "you were bought with a price," while Revelation 14:4 says they "were bought from among humans." An active form identifies the Master who bought people in 2 Peter 2:1, and Revelation 5:9 places the purchase "for God" and "with your blood" within its clause.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB usually renders the action with "buy" or "bought," including food, fields, and goods; in Revelation 5:9 it uses "purchased." These renderings confirm the clauses' purchase setting rather than establish separate meanings.