Lexicon scholé: Leisure, rest, school Original Word: σχολή 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 NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definition leisure, hence disputation (that for which leisure is used), by ext. school NASB Translation school (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 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). |
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