Schole means “school” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4981 — mithni (“Mithnite”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4981 σχολή (schole) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. schole (skhol-ay') n. 1. (properly) loitering (as a withholding of oneself from work) or leisure 2. (by implication) a "school" (as vacation from physical employment) It has 4 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include school. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
schole (skhol-ay') n. 1. (properly) loitering (as a withholding of oneself from work) or leisure 2. (by implication) a "school" (as vacation from physical employment) [probably feminine of a presumed derivative of the alternate of G2192] KJV: school Root(s): G2192
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4981. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
lecture hall
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render schole, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4981 (σχολή) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
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 of one Tyrannus.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Let my lord go on before his servant, and I shall have strength on the road according to the ease of the journey before me, and according to the strength of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: And he that hath little business shall become wise.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4981.
Let my lord go on before his servant, and I shall have strength on the road according to the ease of the journey before me, and according to the strength of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.
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 of one Tyrannus.
The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: And he that hath little business shall become wise.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4981, grouped by book.
Schole (Strong's G4981) is a Greek word most simply glossed "school". schole (skhol-ay') n. 1. (properly) loitering (as a withholding of oneself from work) or leisure 2. (by implication) a "school" (as vacation from physical employment)
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G4981 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4981 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as school. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4981, with linked reader references where each row is available.