Strong's Greek #4981 - σχολή, ῆς, ἡ scholé (leisure)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance school. Probably feminine of a presumed derivative of the alternate of echo; properly, loitering (as a withholding of oneself from work) or leisure, i.e. (by implication) a "school" (as vacation from physical employment) -- school. see GREEK echo Thayer's Greek LexiconStrong's 4981: σχολήσχολή, 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): Acts 19:9 (Dionysius Halicarnassus, de jud. Isocrates 1; tie vi Dem. 44; often in Plutarch). Englishman's Concordance (References) |