- Transliteration: Scholazo

- Phonetic: skhol-ad'-zo

- Definition:

1. to cease from labour, to loiter

2. to be free from labour, to be at leisure, to be idle

a. to have leisure for a thing

b. to give one's self to a thing

3. of things

a. of places, to be unoccupied, empty

b. of a centurion's vacant office

c. of vacant ecclesiastical offices

d. of officers without charge

- Origin: from G4981" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4981

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G4981" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4981; to take a holiday that is be at leisure for (by implication devote oneself wholly to); figuratively to be vacant (of a house): - empty give self.