🇬🇷 Greek · Strong's G4980
G4980

σχολάζω

scholázō [skhol-ad'-zo] Verb
Core meaningbe devoted/empty

Lexical Definition

Strong's Greek G4980

to take a holiday, i.e. be at leisure for (by implication, devote oneself wholly to); figuratively, to be vacant (of a house)

KJV usage: :--empty, give self.
Etymology: from ;
Thayer's Greek Lexicon

to be unemployed, to be at leisure; to be at leisure for a thing, to devote one’s self entirely to a thing, 1 Cor. 7:5; to be unoccupied, empty, Mt. 12:44*

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