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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: σχολή

(Strong's #4981 — Noun Feminine — schole — schol-ay' )

(whence Eng., "school") primarily denotes "leisure," then, "that for which leisure was employed, a disputation, lecture;" hence, by metonymy, "the place where lectures are delivered, a school," Acts 19:9 .

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'School'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​s/school.html. 1940.
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