Noun plateia (main street) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

6: 5"And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the main street (plateia) corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
12: 19He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the main streets (plateia).

Luke

10: 10But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its main streets (plateia) and say,
13: 26Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our main streets (plateia).'
14: 21So the slave returned and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his slave, 'Go out at once into the main streets (plateia) and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

Acts

5: 15so that they even carried out the sick into the main streets (plateia), and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he came by.

Revelation

21: 21And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each of the gates is a single pearl, and the main street (plateia) of the city is pure gold, transparent as glass.
22: 2through the middle of the main street (plateia) of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

Genesis (LXX)

19: 2Lo! my lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning ye shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, but we will lodge in the main street (plateia).

Judges (LXX)

19: 15And they turned aside thence to go in to lodge in Gabaa; and they went in, and sat down in the main street (plateia) of the city, and there was no one who conducted them into a house to lodge.
19: 17And he lifted up his eyes, and saw a traveller in the main street (plateia) of the city; and the old man said to him, Whither goest thou, and whence comest thou?
19: 20And the old man said, Peace be to thee; only be every want of thine upon me, only do thou by no means lodge in the main street (plateia).

2 Samuel (LXX)

21: 12And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of the sons of Jabis Galaad, who stole them from the main street (plateia) of Baethsan; for the Philistines set them there in the day in which the Philistines smote Saul in Gelbue.

2 Chronicles (LXX)

32: 6And he appointed captains of war over the people, and they were gathered to meet him in the main street (plateia) of the gate of the valley, and he encouraged them, saying,

Isaiah (LXX)

15: 3 Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her main streets (plateia): and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of you with weeping.

Jeremiah (LXX)

5: 1Run ye about in the main streets (plateia) of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye can find one, if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, saith the Lord.
9: 21 (20)For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the main streets (plateia).
50(27): 30Therefore shall her young men fall in the main streets (plateia), and all her warriors shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
49 (30): 26 (32)Therefore shall the young men fall in thy main streets (plateia), and all thy warriors shall fall, saith the Lord.
48 (31): 38And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his main streets (plateia) shall be mourning: for I have broken him, saith the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.

Lamentations (LXX)

2: 11Chaph. Mine eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon in the main streets (plateia) of the city.
2: 12Lamed. They said to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? while they fainted like wounded men in the main streets (plateia) of the city, while their souls were poured out into their mother's bosom.
4: 18We have hunted for our little ones, that they should not walk in our main streets (plateia). Koph. Our time has drawn nigh, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.

Ezekiel (LXX)

7: 19Their silver shall be cast forth in the main streets (plateia), and their gold shall be despised: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled: for it was the punishment of their iniquities.
16: 24that thou didst build thyself a house of fornication, and didst make thyself a public place in every main street (plateia);
16: 31Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast set up thine high place in every main street (plateia); and thou didst become as a harlot gathering hires.
26: 11With the hoofs of his horses they shall trample all thy main streets (plateia): he shall slay thy people with the sword, and shall bring down to the ground the support of thy strength.
28: 23Blood and death shall be in thy main streets (plateia); and men wounded with swords shall fall in thee and on every side of thee; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Amos (LXX)

5: 16Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the main streets (plateia) shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.

Nahum (LXX)

2: 5in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the main streets (plateia): their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.

Zechariah (LXX)

8: 4Thus saith the Lord Almighty; There shall yet dwell old men and old women in the main streets (plateia) of Jerusalem, every one holding his staff in his hand for age.
8: 5And the main streets (plateia) of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in the main streets (plateia) thereof.

Daniel (LXX: Theodotion version)

9: 25And thou shalt know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and then the time shall return, and the main street (plateia) shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.

Proverbs (LXX)

1: 20Wisdom sings aloud in passages, and in the main streets (plateia) speaks boldly.
5: 16Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, but let thy waters go into thy main streets (plateia).
7: 6For she looks from a window out of her house into the main streets (plateia), at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,
7: 12For at one time she wanders without, and at another time she lies in wait in the main streets (plateia), at every corner.
9: 14She sits at the doors of her house, on a seat openly in the main streets (plateia),
22: 13The sluggard makes excuses, and says, There is a lion in the ways, and murderers in the main streets (plateia).

Psalms (LXX)

18 (17): 43I will grind them as the mud of the main streets (plateia): and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.
55 (54): 12and usury and craft have not failed from its main streets (plateia).
144 (143): 14Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their main streets (plateia).

Song of Solomon (LXX)

3: 2I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market-places, and in the main streets (plateia), and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

Job (LXX)

29: 7When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the main streets (plateia).

Esther (LXX)

4: 1But Mardochaeus having perceived what was done, rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, and sprinkled dust upon himself; and having rushed forth through the open main street (plateia) of the city, he cried with a loud voice, A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed.
6: 9and let him give it to one of the king's noble friends, and let him array the man whom the king loves; and let him mount him on the horse, and proclaim through the main street (plateia) of the city, saying, Thus shall it be done to every man whom the king honours.
6: 11So Aman took the robe and the horse, and arrayed Mardochaeus, and mounted him on the horse, and went through the main street (plateia) of the city, and proclaimed, saying, Thus shall it be to every man whom the king wishes to honour.

Judith (LXX)

1: 14and became lord of his cities, and came unto Ecbatane, and took the towers, and spoiled the main streets (plateia) thereof, and turned the beauty thereof into shame.
7: 14So they and their wives and their children shall be consumed with famine, and before the sword come against them, they shall be overthrown in the main streets (plateia) where they dwell.
7: 22Therefore their young children were out of heart, and their women and young men fainted for thirst, and fell down in the main streets (plateia) of the city, and by the passages of the gates, and there was no longer any strength in them.

Tobit (LXX)

13: 17And the main streets (plateia) of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stone of Ophir.

Ezra (LXX: Esdras B)

10: 9So all the men of Juda and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. This was the ninth month: on the twentieth day of the month all the people sat down in the main street (plateia) of the house of the Lord, because of their alarm concerning the word, and because of the storm.

Nehemiah (LXX: Esdras B)

8 (18): 16And the people went forth, and brought them, and made booths for themselves, each one upon his roof, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the main streets (plateia) of the city, and as far as the gate of Ephraim.

Sirach (LXX)

23: 21This man shall be punished in the main streets (plateia) of the city, and where he suspecteth not he shall be taken.

1 Maccabees (LXX)

1: 55and burnt incense at the doors of their houses, and in the main streets (plateia).
2: 9Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in the main streets (plateia), her young men with the sword of the enemy.
14: 9The ancient men sat all in the main streets (plateia), communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.

3 Maccabees (LXX)

1: 18Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the main streets (plateia) with outcries.