G4981
G4981 — σχολή
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
schole (skhol-ay') n.
1. (properly) loitering (as a withholding of oneself from work) or leisure
2. (by implication) a "school" (as vacation from physical employment)
[probably feminine of a presumed derivative of the alternate of G2192]
KJV: school
Root(s): G2192
TWOT
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KJV Renderings
school
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σχολή, σχολῆς, ἡ (from σχεῖν; hence, properly, German das Anhalten; (cf. English ’to hold on,’ equivalent to either to stop or to persist));
1. from Pindar down, freedom from labor, leisure.
2. according to later Greek usage, a place where there is leisure for anything, a school (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word, III.; Winer’s Grammar, 23): Act 19:9 (Dionysius Halicarnassus, de jud. Isocrates 1; tie vi Dem. 44; often in Plutarch).
Englishman's Greek Concordance
σχολή (school)
Acts 19:9
- KJV: But when divers were hardened and believed not but spake evil of that way before the multitude he departed from them and separated the disciples disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus
- GK: ως δε τινες εσκληρύνοντο και ηπείθουν κακολογούντες την οδόν ενώπιον του πλήθους αποστάς απ΄ αυτών αφώρισε τους μαθητάς καθ΄ ημέραν διαλεγόμενος εν τη σχολή Τυράννου τινός