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G4981

σχολή

scholēG:N-F

lecture hall

σχολή, -ῆς, ἡ [in LXX: Gen.33:14 (κατὰ σ., אַט), Pro.28:19, Sir.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: Act.19:9 (for the later sense of employment, see MM, xxiv).† (AS)

The KJV translates G4981 in the following manner:

school (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

σχολή — scholḗ

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).

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