King James Bible Dictionary

Of the prophets:

At Naioth
1 Samuel 19:20

At Beth-El
2 Kings 2:3

At Jericho
2 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 2:15

At Gilgal
2 Kings 4:38

At Jerusalem (probably)
2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chronicles 34:22

Crowded attendance at
2 Kings 6:1

In the home
Deuteronomy 4:9-10; Deuteronomy 6:7; Deuteronomy 6:9; Deuteronomy 11:19-20; Psalms 78:5-8

Bible school
Deuteronomy 31:10-13

State
2 Chronicles 17:7-9; Daniel 1:3-21

Of Gamaliel
Acts 5:34; Acts 22:3

Of Tyrannus
Acts 19:9

Schoolmaster
Galatians 3:24-25
Instruction; Psalms, Didactic

SCHOOL, noun [Latin schola; Gr. leisure, vacation from business, lucubration at leisure, a place where leisure is enjoyed, a school The adverb signifies at ease, leisurely, slowly, hardly, with labor or difficulty. I think, must have been derived from the Latin. This word seems originally to have denoted leisure, freedom from business, a time given to sports, games or exercises, and afterwards time given to literary studies. the sense of a crowd, collection or shoal, seems to be derivative.]

1. A place or house in which persons are instructed in arts, science, languages or any species of learning; or the pupils assembled for instruction. In American usage, school more generally denotes the collective body of pupils in any place of instruction, and under the direction and discipline of one or more teachers. Thus we say, a school consists of fifty pupils. The preceptor has a large school or a small school His discipline keeps the school well regulated and quiet.

2. The instruction or exercises of a collection of pupils or students, or the collective body of pupils while engaged in their studies. Thus we say, the school begins or opens at eight o'clock, that is, the pupils at that hour begin their studies. so we say, the teacher is now in school the school hours are from nine to twelve, and from two to five.

3. The state of instruction.

Set him betimes to school

4. A place of education, or collection of pupils, of any kind; as the schools of the prophets. In modern usage, the word school comprehends every place of education, as university, college, academy, common or primary schools, dancing schools, riding schools, etc.; but ordinarily the word is applied to seminaries inferior to universities and colleges.

What is the great community of christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan, which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences?

5. Separate denomination or sect; or a system of doctrine taught by particular teachers, or peculiar to any denomination of christians or philosophers.

Let no man be less confident in his faith - by reason of any difference in the several schools of christians -

Thus we say, the Socratic school the Platonic school the Peripatetic or Ionic school; by which we understand all those who adopted and adhered to a particular system of opinions.

6. The seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics and theology, which were formed in the middle ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning; or the learned men who were engaged in discussing nice points in metaphysics or theology.

The supreme authority of Aristotle in the schools of theology as well as of philosophy -

Hence, school divinity is the divinity which discusses nice points, and proves every thing by argument.

7. Any place of improvement or learning. The world is an excellent school to wise men, but a school of vice to fools.

SCHOOL, verb transitive

1. To instruct; to train; to educate.

He's gentle, never school'd, yet learn'd.

2. To teach with superiority; to tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove.

SCHOOL your child, and ask why God's anointed he revil'd.

SCHOOL'-BOY, noun [See boy.] A boy belonging to a school or one who is learning rudiments.

SCHOOL'-DAME, noun [See Dame.] The female teacher of a school

SCHOOL'-DAY, noun [See Day.] The age in which youth are sent to school [Not now used.]

SCHOOL'-DISTRICT, noun A division of a town or city for establishing and conducting school [United States.]

SCHOOL'ERY, noun Something taught; precepts. [Not used.]

SCHOOL'-FELLOW, noun [See Fellow.] One bred at the same school; an associate in school.

SCHOOL'-HOUSE, noun [See House.] A house appropriated for the use of schools, or for instruction; but applied only to building for subordinate schools, not to colleges. In Connecticut and some other states, every town is divided into school-districts, and each district erects its own school-house by a tax on the inhabitants.

SCHOOL'ING, participle present tense Instructing; teaching; reproving.

SCHOOL'ING, noun

1. Instruction in school; tuition.

2. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

3. Reproof; reprimand. He gave his son a good schooling

SCHOOL'MAID, noun [See Maid.] A girl at school.

SCHOOL'MAN, noun [See Man.]

1. A man versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.

Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtil art.

2. A writer of scholastic divinity or philosophy.

Let subtil schoolmen teach these friends to fight.

The law so designated by Paul (Galatians 3:24, 25). As so used, the word does not mean teacher, but pedagogue (shortened into the modern page), i.e., one who was intrusted with the supervision of a family, taking them to and from the school, being responsible for their safety and manners. Hence the pedagogue was stern and severe in his discipline. Thus the law was a pedagogue to the Jews, with a view to Christ, i.e., to prepare for faith in Christ by producing convictions of guilt and helplessness. The office of the pedagogue ceased when "faith came", i.e., the object of that faith, the seed, which is Christ.

SCHOOL'MASTER, noun [See Master].

1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a teacher, instructor or preceptor of a school. [Applied now only or chiefly to the teachers of primary school.]

Adrian VI. was sometimes schoolmaster to Charles V.

2. He or that which disciplines, instructs and leads.

The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Galatians 3:24.

SCHOOL'MISTRESS, noun [See Mistress.] A woman who governs and teaches a school.

(In the early ages most of the instruction of young children was by the parents. The leisure hours of the Sabbaths and festival days brought the parents in constant contact with the children. After the captivity schools came more into use, and at the time of Christ were very abundant. The schools were in connection with the synagogues, which were found in every village of the city and land. Their idea of the value of schools may be gained from such sayings from the Talmud as "The world is preserved by the breath of the children in the schools;" "A town in which there are no schools must perish;" "Jerusalem was destroyed because the education of children was neglected." Josephus says, "Our principal care is to educate our children." The Talmud states that in Bechar there were 400 schools, having each 400 teachers, with 400 children each and that there were 4000 pupils in the house of Rabban Simeon Ben-Gamaliel. Maimonides thus describes a school: "The teacher sat at the head, and the pupils surrounded him as the crown the head so that every one could see the teacher and hear his words. The teacher did not sit in a chair while the pupils sat on the ground but all either sat on chairs or on the ground." The children read aloud to acquire fluency. The number of school-hours was limited, and during the heat of the summer was only four hours. The punishment employed was beating with a strap, never with a rod. The chief studies were their own language and literature the chief school-book the Holy Scriptures; and there were special efforts to impress lessons of morality and chastity. Besides these they studied mathematics, astronomy and the natural sciences. Beyond the schools for popular education there were higher schools or colleges scattered throughout the cities where the Jews abounded.

ED.)

(1 Samuel 19:18-24; 2 Kings 2:3, 5, 7, 12, 15) were instituted for the purpose of training young men for the prophetical and priestly offices. (See PROPHET; SAMUEL.)