σχολ-άζω,
Boeot. σχολ-άδδω IG 7.2849.6 (Haliartus): -
to have leisure or spare time, to be at leisure, have nothing to do, σὺ δ’ ἢν σχολάσῃς Ar. Lys. 412, cf. Th. 4.4, etc.; διὰ τὸ μὴ σχολάζειν ὑπὸ πολέμων because they have no leisure left by the wars, Pl. Lg. 694e; ἀσχολούμεθα ἵνα σχολάζωμεν Arist. EN 1177b5; ς. καλῶς spend one’s leisure well, Id. Pol. 1337b31; ς. ἐλευθερίως καὶ σωφρόνως ib. 1326b31: c. inf., have leisure or time to do a thing, X. Cyr. 2.1.9, 8.1.18, Pl. Lg. 763d, etc.
2. loiter, linger, A. Supp. 207, 883, E. Hec. 730, D. 3.35.
II ς. ἀπό τινος have rest or respite from a thing, cease from doing, X. Cyr. 7.5.52; ἀπὸ τοῦ Κρώμνου were set free from the operations at K., Id. HG 7.4.28; also ς. ἔργων Plu. Nic. 28.
III c. dat., have leisure, time, or opportunity for a thing, devote one’s time to a thing, πάντα τὸν βίον ἐσχόλακεν [ἐν] τούτῳ D. 22.4; ς. φιλοσοφίᾳ, μουσικῇ, etc., Luc. Macr. 4, VH 2.15; μόνῃ ς. ὑγιείᾳ Gal. 6.168; τῇ γῇ, i.e. agriculture, Sammelb. 4284.15 (iii A.D.); so πρὸς ταῦτα X. Mem. 3.6.6; πρὸς τοῖς ἰδίοις Arist. Pol. 1308b36; ἐπί τινος Id. PA 682a34; περὶ λόγους Plu. Brut. 22; πρὸς ἐννοίᾳ.. πρὸς αὑτόν Id. [Num 14:1-45].
2. c. dat. pers., devote oneself to.., τοῖς φίλοις X. Cyr. 7.5.39; ἑαυτοῖς Gal. 6.810; ὁ στρατηγὸς.. τοῖς διαφέρουσιν ἐσχόλασεν Wilcken Chr. 41 i8 (iii A.D.); esp. of students, study, attend lectures, ἐπὶ Παλλαδίῳ Phld. Acad.Ind. p.88 M.; ς. τινί devote oneself to a master, attend his lectures, ς. Καρνεάδῃ, Ἰσοκράτει, ib. p.89 M., Plu. 2.844b; τοῖς φιλοσόφοις IG 22.1028.34 (ii/i B.C.); μετ’ Ἐπικούρου Phylarch. 24J.; παρά τισι Alciphr. 1.34.
3. abs., devote oneself to learning: hence, give lectures (cf. σχολή 11), Apollon.Perg. Con. 1 Praef.; ς. Ἀθήνησιν Phld. Rh. 1.95 S.; ἐν Λυκείῳ D.H. Amm. 1.5, cf. Plu. Dem. 5:c.acc.neut., ἅπερ ἐσχολάσαμεν Demetr.Lac. Herc. 1013.18; τὰ περὶ τοῦ τέλους σχολασθέντα lectures upon.., S.E. M. 11.167; of a gladiator, to be master of a school (ludus), εἰς Ἔφεσον RArch. 30 (1929).24 (Gortyn). of a place, to be vacant, unoccupied, Plu. CG 12, Jul. Caes. 316c: c. dat., to be reserved for, τὸ ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ κορυφῆς μέχρι σελήνης θεοῖς καὶ ἄστροις.. σχολάζει Herm. ap. Stob. 1.49.68.
G4980 — 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)).
σχολάζω
( < σχολή ),
[in LXX : [Exo 5:8]; [Exo 5:17], [Psa 46:10] (H7503 ni ., hi .) * ;]
to be at leisure, hence, to have time or opportunity for, to devote oneself to, be occupied in: [1Co 7:5]; of things, to be unoccupied, empty ( Plut ., Eur ., al. ): οἶκος , [Mat 12:44], [Luk 11:25] ( T [ WH ], R , om .). †