Strong's Concordance scholazó: to be at leisure, hence to devote oneself to Original Word: σχολάζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: scholazó Phonetic Spelling: (skhol-ad'-zo) Definition: to be at leisure, to devote oneself to Usage: (a) I have leisure, (b) I stand empty (of a house). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom scholé Definition to be at leisure, hence to devote oneself to NASB Translation devote yourselves (1), unoccupied (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4980: σχολάζωσχολάζω; 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)). From schole; 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. see GREEK schole Englishman's Concordance Matthew 12:44 V-PPA-AMSGRK: ἐλθὸν εὑρίσκει σχολάζοντα καὶ σεσαρωμένον NAS: it finds [it] unoccupied, swept, KJV: he findeth [it] empty, swept, INT: having come it finds [it] unoccupied and swept Luke 11:25 V-PPA-AMS 1 Corinthians 7:5 V-ASA-2P Strong's Greek 4980 |