STRONGS NUMBER G4981


Word Summary
scholē: leisure, disputation (that for which leisure is used), school
Original Word: σχολή
Transliteration: scholē
Phonetic Spelling: (skhol-ay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: leisure, disputation (that for which leisure is used), school
Meaning: leisure, disputation (that for which leisure is used), school
Strong's 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

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4981: σχολή

σχολή, σχολῆς, (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).