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Lexicon :: Strong's G4980 - scholazō

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σχολάζω
Transliteration
scholazō (Key)
Pronunciation
skhol-ad'-zo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

σχολάζω scholázō, skhol-ad'-zo; from G4981; to take a holiday, i.e. be at leisure for (by implication, devote oneself wholly to); figuratively, to be vacant (of a house):—empty, give self.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G4980 in the following manner: empty (1x), give (one's) self to (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G4980 in the following manner: empty (1x), give (one's) self to (1x).

  1. to cease from labour, to loiter

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

    1. to have leisure for a thing

    2. to give one's self to a thing

  3. of things

    1. of places, to be unoccupied, empty

    2. of a centurion's vacant office

    3. of vacant ecclesiastical offices

    4. of officers without charge

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σχολάζω scholázō, skhol-ad'-zo; from G4981; to take a holiday, i.e. be at leisure for (by implication, devote oneself wholly to); figuratively, to be vacant (of a house):—empty, give self.
STRONGS G4980:
σχολάζω; 1 aorist subjunctive σχολάσω, 1 Corinthians 7:5 G L T Tr WH; (σχολή, which see);
1. to cease from labor; to loiter.
2. to be free from labor, to be at leisure, to be idle; τίνι, to have leisure for a thing, i. e. to give oneself to a thing: ἵνα σχολάσητε (Rec. σχολάζητε) τῇ προσευχή, 1 Corinthians 7:5 (for examples from secular authors see Passow, under the word; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, III.)).
3. of things; e. g. of places, to be unoccupied, empty: οἶκος σχολαζων, Matthew 12:44; (Luke 11:25 WH brackets Tr marginal reading brackets) (τόπος, Plutarch, Gai. Grac. 12; of a centurion's vacant office, Eus. h. e. 7, 15; in ecclesiastical writings of vacant ecclesiastical offices (also of officers without charge; cf. Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
12:44
Luke
11:25
1 Corinthians
7:5; 7:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4980 matches the Greek σχολάζω (scholazō),
which occurs 3 times in 3 verses in the LXX Greek.

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