Strong G4981σχολή
lecture hall
- Transliteration
- scholē
- Pronunciation
- schol-ay'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Probably feminine of a presumed derivative of the alternate of G2192; properly loitering (as a withholding of oneself from work) or leisure that is (by implication) a school (as vacation from physical employment): - school.
Detailed definition
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)
[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)
In the Bible
Strong G4981 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- school1
First verses
- Acts 19:9But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
σχολή, ἡ,
leisure, rest, ease, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.46, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134, etc.)]; opposed to ἀσχολία, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1334a15, etc.)]; σχολὴν ἄγειν to be at leisure, enjoy ease, keep quiet, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus [same place], 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1238, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.29)]; ἐπί τινι for a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 36d; περί τι Antip.Stoic. 3.256; πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 229e, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.27.15)]; τινι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cal.” 15)]; σ. ἀγαγεῖν ἐπί τινα to give up one's time to him, [Refs ([prev. author] “DDeor.” 12.2, etc.)]; σ. ἔχειν to have leisure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 732, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 813c, etc.)]; ἀμφὶ ἑαυτόν for one's own business, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.42)]; σ. ποιεῖσθαι to find leisure, πρός τι [Refs ([prev. author] “Mem.” 2.6.4)]: with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 530d)]; μὴ σχολὴν τίθει, i.e. make haste, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1059; ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν σχολὴν λάβω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1432)]; σχολή [ἐστί] μοι I have time, οὐ σχολὴ αὐτῷ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 314d)]; οὐκ οὔσης σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 281; also παρούσης πολλῆς σ... πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 272b: proverbial, οὐ σ. δούλοις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1334a21)]: with infinitive, οὔτοι.. τῇδ᾽ ἐμοὶ σ. πάρα τρίβειν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1055, etc.)]; εἴ τῳ καὶ λογίζεσθαι σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 816; εἴ σοι σ. προϊόντι ἀκούειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 227b)]; καταβαίνειν οὐ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 409, +others; σ. πλείων ἢ θέλω πάρεστί μοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 818)]; σχολὴ ἐδόκει γίγνεσθαι he thought he had plenty of time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.10)]; σ. διδόναι, παρέχειν τινί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.22, “Hier.” 10.5; σ. καταναλίσκειν εἴς τι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.18)]; τὴν τοῦ πράττοντος σ. περιμένειν to wait his leisure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 370b)]; σχολῆς τόδ᾽ ἔργον a work for leisure, i.e. requiring attention, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 552: frequently with Preps., ἐπὶ σχολῆς)] at leisure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 172d; κατὰ σχολήν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 48, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 228a; μετὰ σχολῆς [prev. author] “Criti.” 110a; ὑπὸ σχολῆς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.667d; see.below 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
2 with genitive, leisure, rest from a thing, ἔν τινι σχολῇ κακοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1286; ὡς ἂν σχολὴν λύσωμεν.. πόνων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 725; σ. ἐστί τινι τῶν πράξεων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 961b, compare “R.” 370c; also σ. γίγνεταί τινι ἀπό τινος [prev. author] “Phd.” 66d)]; σ. ἄγειν ἀπό τινος to keep clear of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.47)]; ἡ τῶν ἀναγκαίων σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1269a35.)]
3 idleness, τίκτει γὰρ οὐδὲν ἐσθλὸν εἰκαία σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 308; σ. τερπνὸν κακόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 384.)]
II that in which leisure is employed, οὐ κάμνω σχολῇ I am not weary of talk, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ion” 276)]; especially learned discussion, disputation, lecture, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 820c (_plural_), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1323b39; παρεκαθίζανον.. σχολαῖς φιλομαθεῖν προαιρούμενοι “IG” 22.1011.22)]; ταῦτ᾽ οὐ σχολὴ Πλάτωνο; [Refs 1st c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 158; σχολὰς ἀναγράψαι 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” p.74 M., compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.37c, etc.; σ. περὶ πολιτείας γράψασθαι [prev. work]790e; σ. ἀναγνῶναι, λέγειν, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” p.82 M., 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 4.11.35)]; ἠθικαὶ σ., title of work by Persaeus, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 1.102, compare 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Tusculanae Disputationes” 1.4.7, 8.)]
II.2 a group to whom lectures were given, school, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1313b3, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ind.Sto.” 10, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 1, “Dem.” 44, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 35, “Alex.” 7, etc.)]; σ. ἔχειν to keep a school, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epict.” 3.21.11)]; σχολῆς ἡγεῖσθαι to be master of it, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” p.92 M., 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Amm.” 1.7.)]
II.3 Latin schola, ={σχολαστήριον}, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 5.10.4, “CIL” 10.831, etc.)]
III σχολαί, αἱ, regiments of the Imperial guard, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “de Bello Gothico” 4.27, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus)] see at {διέδριον}; Latin scholae, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (Codex Theod. 14.17.9 (4th c.AD), etc.)]
III.b section of an office, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PMasp.” 57 ii 18 (6th c.AD))]; of the [Refs (15)] 'schools' of shorthand writers, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Lydus, Joannes Laurentius Historicus “Mag.” 3.6.)]
B σχολῇ as adverb, in a leisurely way, tardily, ἤνυτον σ. βραδύς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 231, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142, 3.46, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.19, etc.)]; ἄτρεμά τε καὶ σ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 135.4; σ. καὶ βάδην 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.28.11.)]
B.2 at one's leisure, i.e. scarcely, hardly, not at all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 434. “Ant.” 390, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 233b, etc.; παραινῶ πᾶσι.. σ. τεκνοῦσθαι παῖδας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 317; σ. γε 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.102, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.14.3; σ. που 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 261)] 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+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.90; εἰ αὗται.. μὴ ἀκριβεῖς εἰσι, σχολῇ αἵ γε ἄλλαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 65b; εἰ μὴ τούτων.., σ. τῶν γε ἄλλων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 999a10)]; ὁπότε γὰρ.., answered by σ. γε, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 610e; μὴ γιγνώσκων τὴν οὐσίαν σ. τήν γε ὀρθότητα διαγνώσεται [prev. author] “Lg.” 668c.)]
leisure, rest, ease, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.46, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134, etc.)]; opposed to ἀσχολία, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1334a15, etc.)]; σχολὴν ἄγειν to be at leisure, enjoy ease, keep quiet, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus [same place], 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1238, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.29)]; ἐπί τινι for a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 36d; περί τι Antip.Stoic. 3.256; πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 229e, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.27.15)]; τινι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cal.” 15)]; σ. ἀγαγεῖν ἐπί τινα to give up one's time to him, [Refs ([prev. author] “DDeor.” 12.2, etc.)]; σ. ἔχειν to have leisure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 732, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 813c, etc.)]; ἀμφὶ ἑαυτόν for one's own business, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.42)]; σ. ποιεῖσθαι to find leisure, πρός τι [Refs ([prev. author] “Mem.” 2.6.4)]: with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 530d)]; μὴ σχολὴν τίθει, i.e. make haste, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1059; ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν σχολὴν λάβω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1432)]; σχολή [ἐστί] μοι I have time, οὐ σχολὴ αὐτῷ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 314d)]; οὐκ οὔσης σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 281; also παρούσης πολλῆς σ... πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 272b: proverbial, οὐ σ. δούλοις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1334a21)]: with infinitive, οὔτοι.. τῇδ᾽ ἐμοὶ σ. πάρα τρίβειν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1055, etc.)]; εἴ τῳ καὶ λογίζεσθαι σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 816; εἴ σοι σ. προϊόντι ἀκούειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 227b)]; καταβαίνειν οὐ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 409, +others; σ. πλείων ἢ θέλω πάρεστί μοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 818)]; σχολὴ ἐδόκει γίγνεσθαι he thought he had plenty of time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.10)]; σ. διδόναι, παρέχειν τινί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.22, “Hier.” 10.5; σ. καταναλίσκειν εἴς τι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.18)]; τὴν τοῦ πράττοντος σ. περιμένειν to wait his leisure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 370b)]; σχολῆς τόδ᾽ ἔργον a work for leisure, i.e. requiring attention, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 552: frequently with Preps., ἐπὶ σχολῆς)] at leisure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 172d; κατὰ σχολήν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 48, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 228a; μετὰ σχολῆς [prev. author] “Criti.” 110a; ὑπὸ σχολῆς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.667d; see.below 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
2 with genitive, leisure, rest from a thing, ἔν τινι σχολῇ κακοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1286; ὡς ἂν σχολὴν λύσωμεν.. πόνων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 725; σ. ἐστί τινι τῶν πράξεων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 961b, compare “R.” 370c; also σ. γίγνεταί τινι ἀπό τινος [prev. author] “Phd.” 66d)]; σ. ἄγειν ἀπό τινος to keep clear of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.47)]; ἡ τῶν ἀναγκαίων σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1269a35.)]
3 idleness, τίκτει γὰρ οὐδὲν ἐσθλὸν εἰκαία σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 308; σ. τερπνὸν κακόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 384.)]
II that in which leisure is employed, οὐ κάμνω σχολῇ I am not weary of talk, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ion” 276)]; especially learned discussion, disputation, lecture, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 820c (_plural_), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1323b39; παρεκαθίζανον.. σχολαῖς φιλομαθεῖν προαιρούμενοι “IG” 22.1011.22)]; ταῦτ᾽ οὐ σχολὴ Πλάτωνο; [Refs 1st c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 158; σχολὰς ἀναγράψαι 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” p.74 M., compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.37c, etc.; σ. περὶ πολιτείας γράψασθαι [prev. work]790e; σ. ἀναγνῶναι, λέγειν, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” p.82 M., 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 4.11.35)]; ἠθικαὶ σ., title of work by Persaeus, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 1.102, compare 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Tusculanae Disputationes” 1.4.7, 8.)]
II.2 a group to whom lectures were given, school, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1313b3, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ind.Sto.” 10, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 1, “Dem.” 44, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 35, “Alex.” 7, etc.)]; σ. ἔχειν to keep a school, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epict.” 3.21.11)]; σχολῆς ἡγεῖσθαι to be master of it, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” p.92 M., 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Amm.” 1.7.)]
II.3 Latin schola, ={σχολαστήριον}, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 5.10.4, “CIL” 10.831, etc.)]
III σχολαί, αἱ, regiments of the Imperial guard, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “de Bello Gothico” 4.27, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus)] see at {διέδριον}; Latin scholae, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (Codex Theod. 14.17.9 (4th c.AD), etc.)]
III.b section of an office, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PMasp.” 57 ii 18 (6th c.AD))]; of the [Refs (15)] 'schools' of shorthand writers, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Lydus, Joannes Laurentius Historicus “Mag.” 3.6.)]
B σχολῇ as adverb, in a leisurely way, tardily, ἤνυτον σ. βραδύς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 231, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142, 3.46, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.19, etc.)]; ἄτρεμά τε καὶ σ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 135.4; σ. καὶ βάδην 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.28.11.)]
B.2 at one's leisure, i.e. scarcely, hardly, not at all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 434. “Ant.” 390, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 233b, etc.; παραινῶ πᾶσι.. σ. τεκνοῦσθαι παῖδας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 317; σ. γε 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.102, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.14.3; σ. που 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 261)] 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+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.90; εἰ αὗται.. μὴ ἀκριβεῖς εἰσι, σχολῇ αἵ γε ἄλλαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 65b; εἰ μὴ τούτων.., σ. τῶν γε ἄλλων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 999a10)]; ὁπότε γὰρ.., answered by σ. γε, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 610e; μὴ γιγνώσκων τὴν οὐσίαν σ. τήν γε ὀρθότητα διαγνώσεται [prev. author] “Lg.” 668c.)]