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 scholazō 2x to be unemployed, to be at leisure; to be at leisure for a thing, to devote one s self entirely to a thing, 1Co_7:5 ; to be unoccupied, empty, Mat_12:44

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 .).†

σχολάζω [page 619] have leisure : cf. P Hib I. 55 .6 (B.C. 250) ο ]ὐ̣ γ̣α̣̣ρ σχολάζω μένειν πλείονα χ̣ρ̣[όνον , for I have no leisure to remain longer (Edd.), PSI V. 530 .7 (iii/B.C.) καλῶς δ᾽ ἂν ποήσαις ὑποζύγιον δοὺς ἐὰν ἦι σχολ̣α̣ζον , BGU I. 93 .19 (ii/iii A.D.) ἐὰ ]ν . . δύνατόν σοι ᾖ , μετ᾽ αὐτῆς κατέλθῃς πρὸς ἐμέ , ἐὰν δὲ μὴ σχολάζῃς , διαπέμψεις αὐτὴν διὰ τῆς μητρός μου , ib . II. 424 .13 (ii/iii A.D.) οὐ γὰρ ἐσχόλασον ( l . ἐσχόλαζον ) ἀπελθεῖν πρὸς αὐτὴν καὶ μέμφομαί σε πολλά , and P Oxy VII. 1070 .56 (iii/A.D.) ἐν τῷ παρόντι οὐ σχολάζομεν ἑτέροις ἐξερχόμενοι , at present we are not at leisure and are visiting others (Ed.). For the derived meaning have leisure for, and hence devote myself to, as in 1Co_7:5 , cf. P Lond V. 1836 .14 (iv/A.D.), where the writer asks that Sarapion should be freed from his present duties, and so τοῖς ἡμῶν [πρ ]άγμασι σ̣χ̣ολάζειν , be at leisure for our affairs, and an unpublished Bremen papyrus of Roman times (cited by GH ad P Oxy VII. 1065) ἴσθ δὲ ὅτι οὐ μέλλω θεῷ σχολάζειν , εἰ μὴ πρότερον ἀπαρτίσω τὸν υἱόν μου : cf. Preisigke 4284 .15 (A.D. 207) πρὸς τὸ ἐκ τῆς σῆς βοηθείας ἐκδικηθέντες δυνηθῶμεν ( sic ) τῇ γῇ σχολάζειν , P Par 69 i. 8 (day-book of a strategus A.D. 232) (= Chrest . I. p. 61) τοῖ [ς διαφ ]έρουσι ἐσχόλασεν , P Cornell 52 .3 (late iii/A.D.) ἐν τῇ χθὲς ἦ̣λ̣θον εἰς τὴν Τακόνα καὶ ἐσχόλασα τῇ καταστ̣άσει τῶν ἄλλων λιτουργιῶν , yesterday I came to Tacona and engaged in the induction of the other liturgical officials (Edd.), also OGIS 569 .23 (iv/A.D.) διατετάχθαι δὲ τ ]ῇ τῶν ὁμογενῶν ὑμῶν θεῶν θρησκείᾳ σχολά [ζειν ἐμμενῶς ὑπὲρ ] τῆς αἰωνίου καὶ ἀφθάρτου βασιλείας ὑμῶν , and Test. xii. patr . Jud_1:20 δύο πνεύματα σχολάζουσι τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ , τὸ τῆς ἀληθείας καὶ τὸ τῆς πλάνης .

σχολάζω σχολάζω, φυτ. -άσω [Etym: σχολή] "to have leisure or spare time, to be at leisure", Thuc. , etc.:—c. inf. "to have leisure or time to do" a thing, Xen. "to loiter, linger, delay", Eur. , Dem. σχ. ἀπό τινος, Lat. vacare a re, to have rest or "respite from" a thing, "cease from" doing, Xen. σχολάζειν τινί, Lat. vacare rei, to have leisure or "opportunity for" a thing, "to devote one's time to" it, Dem. ; πρός τι Xen. also c. dat. pers. "to devote himself to", τοῖς φίλοις id=Xen. : esp. of scholars, σχ. τινί "to devote oneself" to a master, "attend his lectures", id=Xen. ; and absol. "to give lectures", Plut. of a place, "to be vacant or unoccupied", id=Plut.

σχολάζω (σχολή), [in LXX: Exo.5:8, 17, Psa.46:10 (רָפָה 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.).† (AS)