noun · feminine
scholas
Greekσχολή (scholē)
Strong’sG4981
leisure, a school
stem schol-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
σχολή, -ῆς, ἡ
[in LXX: Ge 33:14 (κατὰ σ., לְאִטִּי), Pr 28:19, Si 38:24 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4981 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidskhol-ay'
properly, loitering (as a withholding of oneself from work) or leisure, i.e. (by implication) a "school" (as vacation from physical employment)
Fromprobably feminine of a presumed derivative of the alternate of G2192;
King Jamesschool.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | scholas | scholais |
| object accusative | scholan | scholain |
| direct address vocative | scholar | scholair |
| of, belonging to genitive | scholau | scholaiu |
| to, for dative | schola1×σχολῇ | scholai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
schola is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
schola“lecture hall”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 19:9“lecture hall”hōs de tinois sklērunile kai apeithale kakologarōtois tan hodan enōpion teu plētheu, afistanaratos apo autoiu aforizata toin mathētoin, kata hēmeran dialegerōtos en ta schola Turannou.But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.