Strong's Lexicon

G4980

G4980 — σχολάζω

Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

GreekscholazoverbOccurrences: 2

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:G4980
Word:σχολάζω
Part of Speech:verb
Etymology:from G4981
Language:Greek
Occurrences:2
Transliteration:scholazo
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:skhol-ad'-zo
Meaning:1. to take a holiday, i.e. be at leisure for 2. (by implication) devote oneself wholly to 3. (figuratively) to be vacant (of a house)
KJV Renderings:empty, give self

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

σχολάζω; 1 aorist subjunctive σχολάσω, 1Co 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, 1Co 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, Mat 12:44; (Luk 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)).

Englishman's Greek Concordance

σχολάζω (empty)

Matthew 12:44

KJV: Then he saith I will return into my house from whence I came out and when he is come he findeth empty swept and garnished
GK: τότε λέγει επιστρέψω εις τον οίκόν μου όθεν εξήλθον και ελθόν ευρίσκει σχολάζοντα σεσαρωμένον και κεκοσμημένον

1 Corinthians 7:5

KJV: Defraud ye not one the other except with consent for a time that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency
GK: μη αποστερείτε αλλήλους ει μη τι εκ συμφώνου προς καιρόν ίνα σχολάζητε τη νηστεία και τη προσευχή και πάλιν επί το αυτό συνέρχησθε ίνα μη πειράζη υμάς ο σατανάς διά την ακρασίαν υμών
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