The brand name MarketHive occurred to me, or I should say came to me after more than a year of chasing brand names back and forth. Nothing was clicking. I researched what was the best way to determine a good brand name, one that a total stranger would remember after spending 3 minutes in an elevator with you telling him about it. It had to have meaning, 3 or less syllables and have many levels of meanings.

The concept of "The Network" was born in November 2012 on my 3rd day of prayer. Yes it was prayed into existence, this is a fact. From those early Yahweh inspired blue prints; I was able to raise about $400,000 to build this yet un-named Network. The development is still underway, but we have spent over $220,000 on just one engineer to build enough to get it started and another $100,000 in infrastructure, services, etc. But the brand name? I had spent over $10,000 just buying domain names that eventually did not work, like FreedomFox.com, sounded good maybe at the time, but again was not it. Everything had been taken or so we believed.

February 2014 I awoke with the word, MarketHive in my head. It had the two main elements I wanted, a verb and a noun. Market (a verb) and hive (A noun). Both words had deep Biblical roots too, another good thing. That day I discovered there was no usage at all with that name. All the domains (ALL) were available. All social network usernames were available. The name was not encumbered by Trademark or Patent or Copyright either. It was a go. So I acquired the name "MarketHive”. When the name was proposed to the BOD founders it received a 100% thumbs up too. Since then it has been submitted for Trademark, Patent, Copyright.

MarketHive's brand was established. The Lord had blessed me again. The Lord had blessed all of the BOD Founders too, again.

This blog is really being produced for several reasons. Primarily, to keep fine tuning our social network tools and platforms, but as well, to illustrate to our subscribers and the rest of the Netospher, the power of Markethive's Social Network and blog platform. And to pursue a better understand the Biblical connections the names joined together into a compound word and the meaning of it. I am curious, since I just recently discovered within the name another important Biblical reference ARK is evident:

MARKET; MARKETPLACE; MART
From a Biblical Perspective

mar'-ket, mar'-ketplas, mart (ma`arabh, cachar; agora):

(1) Ma`arabh, from a root meaning "trading" and hence, goods exchanged, and so "merchandise" in the Revised Version (British and American), "market" in the King James Version, occurs only in Ezekiel 27:13,17,19,25, and is translated correctly "merchandise" in both the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version.

(2) Cachar means a "trading emporium," hence, mart, and merchandise. It occurs only in Isaiah 23:3 (see MERCHANDISE).

(3) Agora, from root meaning "to collect," means a "town meeting-place," "resort of the people," so a place where the public generally met to exchange views and wares. No doubt, the central place soon filling up, the people thronged the adjoining streets, and so in time each street thus used came to be called agora, "marketplace"; translated "marketplace(s)" in 1 Esdras 2:18; Tobit 2:3; Matthew 11:16; 20:3; 23:7; Mark 6:56; 7:4; 12:38; Luke 7:32; 11:43; 20:46; Acts 16:19; 17:17; "Market of Appius" in Acts 28:15 means, probably, "street" (see APPII FORUM).

The marketplace in New Testament times was the public open space, either simple or ornate, in town, city or country, where (Mark 6:56) the people congregated, not only for exchange of merchandise, but for one or more of the following purposes:

(1) a place where the children came together to sing, dance and play, a "back-to-date" municipal recreation center (Matthew 11:16,17; Luke 7:32);

(2) a place for loafers, a sort of ancient, irresponsible labor bureau where the out-of-work idler waited the coming of an employer with whom he might bargain for his services, usually by the day (Matthew 20:1-16);

(3) a place where the proud pretender could parade in long robes and get public recognition, "salutations in the market-places," e.g. the scribes and Pharisees against whom Jesus emphatically warns His disciples (Matthew 23:3-7; Mark 12:38; Luke 11:43; 20:46);

(4) a place where the sick were brought for treatment, the poor man's sanatorium, a municipal hospital; Jesus "who went about doing good" often found His opportunity there (Mark 6:56);

(5) a place of preliminary hearing in trials, where the accused might be brought before rulers who were present at the time, e.g. Paul and Silas at Philippi (Acts 16:19);

(6) a place for religious and probably political or philosophical discussion (gossip also), a forum, a free-speech throne; no doubt often used by the early apostles not only as a place of proclaiming some truth of the new religion but also a place of advertisement for a coming synagogue service, e.g. Paul in Athens (Acts 17:17).

The Wisdom of Solomon 15:12 (the King James Version) has "They counted ... our time here a market for gain," the Revised Version (British and American) "a gainful fair," margin "a keeping of festival," Greek panegurismos, "an assembly of all." Such assemblies offered particular opportunities for business dealings.

In Summary: Market as defined in the Bible:

A place to play and have fun
A place to loiter and look for part of full time work
A place to strut, show off, ones imaginary or real accolades to others
A place to seek treatment, solutions, prayers, opportunities, knowledge, etc.
A place to discuss social, political, spiritual matters, concerns and truths.
A place to seek and share wisdom in all manners and matters.

Next article will be about the Hive according to Biblical references.

Thomas Prendergast
CMO
Markethive