STRONGS G4981:
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):
Acts 19:9 (
Dionysius Halicarnassus, de jud.
Isocrates 1; tie vi Dem. 44; often in
Plutarch).
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