scholas

Strong’sG4981

leisure, a school

stem schol-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

σχολή, -ῆς, ἡ

[in LXX: Ge 33:14 (κατὰ σ., לְאִטִּי), Pr 28:19, Si 38:24 *;]

1. leisure.

2. Later (from Plato on),

(a) that for which leisure is employed, a disputation, lecture;

(b) the place where lectures are delivered, a school: Ac 19:9 (for the later sense of employment, v. MM, xxiv).†

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

σχολή, ἡ,
leisure, rest, ease, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἀσχολία, Refs 4th c.BC+; σχολὴν ἄγειν to be at leisure, enjoy ease, keep quiet, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπί τινι for a thing, Refs 5th c.BC+; τινι Refs 2nd c.AD+; σ. ἀγαγεῖν ἐπί τινα to give up one's time to him, Refs; σ. ἔχειν to have leisure, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀμφὶ ἑαυτόν for one's own business, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. ποιεῖσθαι to find leisure, πρός τι Refs: with infinitive, Refs 5th c.BC+; μὴ σχολὴν τίθει, i.e. make haste, Refs 5th c.BC+; σχολή [ἐστί] μοι I have time, οὐ σχολὴ αὐτῷ Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐκ οὔσης σ. Refs 5th c.BC+: with infinitive, οὔτοι.. τῇδ᾽ ἐμοὶ σ. πάρα τρίβειν Refs 4th c.BC+; εἴ τῳ καὶ λογίζεσθαι σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; καταβαίνειν οὐ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; σχολὴ ἐδόκει γίγνεσθαι he thought he had plenty of time, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. διδόναι, παρέχειν τινί, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν τοῦ πράττοντος σ. περιμένειν to wait his leisure, Refs 5th c.BC+; σχολῆς τόδ᾽ ἔργον a work for leisure, i.e. requiring attention, Refs 5th c.BC+ at leisure, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 with genitive, leisure, rest from a thing, ἔν τινι σχολῇ κακοῦ Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. ἄγειν ἀπό τινος to keep clear of.., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ τῶν ἀναγκαίων σ. Refs 4th c.BC+
3 idleness, τίκτει γὰρ οὐδὲν ἐσθλὸν εἰκαία σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II that in which leisure is employed, οὐ κάμνω σχολῇ I am not weary of talk, Refs; especially learned discussion, disputation, lecture, Refs 5th c.BC+; ταῦτ᾽ οὐ σχολὴ Πλάτωνο; Refs 1st c.BC+; ἠθικαὶ σ., title of work by Persaeus, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.2 a group to whom lectures were given, school, Refs 4th c.BC+; σ. ἔχειν to keep a school, Refs 2nd c.AD+; σχολῆς ἡγεῖσθαι to be master of it, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.3 Latin schola, ={σχολαστήριον}, Refs 1st c.BC+
III σχολαί, αἱ, regiments of the Imperial guard, Refs 6th c.AD+ see at {διέδριον}; Latin scholae, Refs 4th c.AD+
III.b section of an office, Refs 6th c.AD+; of the Refs 'schools' of shorthand writers, Refs 6th c.AD+
B σχολῇ as adverb, in a leisurely way, tardily, ἤνυτον σ. βραδύς Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄτρεμά τε καὶ σ. Refs 2nd c.BC+
B.2 at one's leisure, i.e. scarcely, hardly, not at all, Refs 5th c.BC+ b: frequently in apodosi, to introduce an a fortioriargument, εἰ δὲ μὴ.., ἦ που σχολῇ.. γε if not so.., hardly or much less so.., Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁπότε γὰρ.., answered by σ. γε, Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

lecture hall1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

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

scholstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

schola“lecture hall”to, fordative singular1×

Acts 19:9… mathētoin, kata hēmeran dialegorōntos en ta schola Turannou.… to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.