Bible Dictionary: School

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

2. (n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.

3. (n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.

4. (n.) A session of an institution of instruction.

5. (n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academic disputations and subtleties of reasoning.

6. (n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.

7. (n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.

8. (n.) The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.

9. (n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.

10. (n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.

11. (v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

12. (v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

SCHOOL

skool (schole).

See TYRANNUS.

Greek

4981. schole -- leisure, hence disputation (that for which leisure ...
... school. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: schole Phonetic Spelling:
(skhol-ay') Short Definition: leisure, a school Definition: leisure, a school ...
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4746b. Stoikos -- Stoic, ie belonging to the Stoic school of ...
... Stoikos. 4747 . Stoic, ie belonging to the Stoic school of thought. ... Word Origin
from stoa Definition Stoic, ie belonging to the Stoic school of thought. ...
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3807. paidagogos -- a trainer of boys, ie a tutor
... From pais and a reduplicated form of ago; a boy-leader, ie A servant whose office
it was to take the children to school; (by implication, (figuratively) a ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Acts 19:9
But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
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John 7:14-16
Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
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Library

With Christ in the School of Prayer
With Christ in the School of Prayer. <. With Christ in the School of Prayer
Andrew Murray. Table of Contents. Title Page. PREFACE. FIRST LESSON. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/murray/with christ in the school of prayer/

The Boy and the Sunday School
The Boy and the Sunday School. <. The Boy and the Sunday School
John L. Alexander. Produced by Curtis Weyant, Thomas ...
//christianbookshelf.org/alexander/the boy and the sunday school/

The School
... The School. Gerhard Ter Steegen Matthew 18:3. Where is the school for each and all,.
Where men become as children small,. And little ones are great? ...
/.../bevan/hymns of ter steegen suso and others/the school.htm

The School of Obedience
The School of Obedience. <. The School of Obedience Andrew Murray. Table of
Contents. Title Page. PREFACE. I. Obedience: Its place In Holy Scripture. ...
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The Public School and the Boy
The Boy and the Sunday School. <. ... II THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AND THE
BOY. Of the primary institutions that are cooperating in ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/ii the public school and.htm

A Neglected School
... Chapter 16. Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; At 70, Wesley
Preaches to 30,000 People A Neglected School. Thursday ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/wesley/the journal of john wesley/a neglected school.htm

The Relation of the Sunday School to Community Organizations
The Boy and the Sunday School. <. ... XXII THE RELATION OF THE SUNDAY
SCHOOL TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. The church school ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/xxii the relation of the.htm

The Boy and the Sunday School
The Boy and the Sunday School. <. ... V THE BOY AND THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
There are two factors in the above subject"the factor ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/v the boy and the.htm

School Life
... III. SACRAMENTS AND RITES School Life. [1386]365 O Thou whose feet have
climbed life's hill [1387]366 We build our school on thee ...
/.../the hymnal of the protestant episcopal church in the usa/school life.htm

The Rural Sunday School
The Boy and the Sunday School. <. ... XXI THE RURAL SUNDAY SCHOOL. The problem
of the rural Sunday school is its size and equipment. ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/xxi the rural sunday school.htm

Thesaurus

School (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
2. (n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction ...
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School-master (2 Occurrences)
School-master. Schoolmaster, School-master. Schools . Multi-Version
Concordance School-master (2 Occurrences). Galatians ...
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Schoolmaster (3 Occurrences)
... pedagogue (shortened into the modern page), ie, one who was intrusted with the
supervision of a family, taking them to and from the school, being responsible ...
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Stoics (1 Occurrence)
... LITERATURE 1. Origin and Propagation: The name was derived from the Stoa Poikile,
the painted porch at Athens, where the founders of the school first lectured. ...
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Tyrannus (1 Occurrence)
... Prince, a Greek rhetorician, in whose "school" at Ephesus Paul disputed daily for
the space of two years with those who came to him (Acts 19:9). Some have ...
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Gymnasium
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A place or building where athletic exercises
are performed; a school for gymnastics. 2. (n.) A ...
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Galatians (2 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE. " I. THE AUTHORSHIP
1. Position of the Dutch School 2. Early Testimony II. ...
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First (4693 Occurrences)
... ko-rin'-thi-anz: I. AUTHENTICITY OF THE TWO EPISTLES 1. External Evidence 2. Internal
Evidence 3. Consent of Criticism 4. Ultra-Radical Attack (Dutch School) II ...
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Epicureans (1 Occurrence)
... of its course. The views of Paul's opponents of this school may therefore
be gathered from the teaching of Epicurus. 1. Social and ...
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Corinthians (3 Occurrences)
... This is one of the epistles the authenticity of which has never been called in question
by critics of any school, so many and so conclusive are the evidences ...
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Bible Concordance

School (3 Occurrences)

John 7:15 The Jews were astonished. "How does this man know anything of books," they said, "although he has never been at any of the schools?"
(Root in WEY BBE)

Acts 19:9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Titus 2:4 They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,
(WEY)

Subtopics

School

School in the Home

School of Gamaliel

School of the Prophets, at Naioth

School of Tyrannus

School: Beth-El

School: Crowded Attendance At

School: Gilgal

School: Jericho

School: Jerusalem, Probably

School: Like a Bible School