Scholḗ — G4981

Definition

feminine noun

properly, loitering (as a withholding of oneself from work) or leisure, i.e. (by implication) a "school" (as vacation from physical employment)

1. from Pindar down, freedom from labor, leisure
2. according to later Greek usage, a place where there is leisure for anything, a school

Usually translated as

school

Origin

probably feminine of a presumed derivative of the alternate of G2192

• échō (G2192)

Occurrences

Scholḗ occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Acts (1)

• Acts 19:9 — But 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 (σχολῆ) of one Tyrannus.