'Marketplaces' in the Bible

Destruction is within her;Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.

At times she was in the streets, at times in the market places,Lurking and setting her ambush at every corner.

Furthermore, they are afraid of a high place and of dangers on the road; the almond tree (hair) blossoms [white], and the grasshopper (a little thing) is a burden, and the caperberry (desire, appetite) fails. For man goes to his eternal home and the mourners go about the streets and market places.

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like little children sitting in the market places, who call to the others,

and to be greeted [with respect] in the market places and public forums, and to have people call them Rabbi.

And wherever He came into villages, or cities, or the countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places and pleading with Him [to allow them] just to touch the fringe (tassel with a blue cord) of His robe; and all who touched it were healed.

In [the course of] His teaching He was saying, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes [displaying their prominence], and like to receive respectful greetings in the market places,

Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the best seats in the synagogues and to be respectfully greeted in the market places.