College

King James Dictionary

College n. In its primary sense, a collection, or assembly. Hence,

1. In a general sense, a collection, assemblage or society of men, invested with certain powers and rights, performing certain duties, or engaged in some common employment, or pursuit. 2.In a particular sense, an assembly for a political or ecclesiastical purpose as the college of Electors or their deputies at the diet in Ratisbon. So also, the college of princes, or their deputies the college of cities, or deputies of the Imperial cities the college of Cardinals, or sacred college. In Russia, the denomination, college, is given to councils of state, courts or assemblies of men intrusted with the administration of the government, and called Imperial college the college of foreign affairs the college of war the admiralty college the college of justice the college of commerce the medical college.

In Great Britain and the United States of America, a society of physicians is called a college. So also there are colleges of surgeons and in Britain, a college of philosophy, a college of heralds, a college of justice, &c. Colleges of these kinds are usually incorporated or established by the supreme power of the state.

3. An edifice appropriated to the use of students, who are acquiring the languages and sciences. 4. The society of persons engaged in the pursuits of literature, including the officers and students. Societies of this kind are incorporated and endowed with revenues. 5. In foreign universities, a public lecture.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

COLLEGE . This stands in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] (  2 Kings 22:14 ,   2 Chronicles 34:22 ) for the Heb. mishneh , which RV [Note: Revised Version.] correctly renders ‘second quarter,’ a quarter of the city lying to the north (  Zephaniah 1:10 ), and possibly referred to in   Nehemiah 11:9 , where our versions have ‘second over the city.’ The idea of a ‘college’ came from the Targ. on   2 Kings 22:14 , ‘house of instruction.’

J. Taylor.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

(2): (n.) A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.

(3): (n.) A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.

(4): (n.) Fig.: A community.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Not a school of learning in  2 Kings 22:14, but the second part or suburb or lower part of the city.  Zephaniah 1:10, answering to Akra N. of Zion; the Bezetha or Newtown, Hebrew Ha-Mishneh) ; called by Josephus "the other city," i.e. the lower city (Ant. 15:11, section 5). "Outside the wall, between the two walls, which was a second part of the city" (Rashi).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

The Hebrew word signifies 'second part,' as in the margin of  2 Kings 22:14;  2 Chronicles 34:22 . It may refer to a part of the city where there was a school. The Rabbis derive it from 'to teach;' hence 'the school' of the prophets.

People's Dictionary of the Bible

College.  2 Kings 22:14;  2 Chronicles 34:22, A. V., but the R. V. reads "the second quarter," meaning the lower part of the city.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 2 Kings 22:14 2 Chronicles 34:22

Holman Bible Dictionary

 2 Kings 22:14 Zephaniah 1:10

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

occurs ( 2 Kings 22:14;  2 Chronicles 34:22) as the translation of מַשְׁנֶה (mishneh', second rank), the residence of the prophetess Huldah (q.v.). The same term is used in  Zephaniah 1:10 (translated "second"), where the different quarters of Jerusalem are spoken of, and is found more fully in  Nehemiah 11:9 (where, instead of "the Second over the city," the original has עִל הָעַיר מַּשְׁנֶה , "upon the city second," i.e. over the second part of the city). From all these notices we can only gather that there was anciently a quarter or district that went by this appellation, but there is no definite intimation of its position. It may have been only another name for ACRA (See Acra) (q.v.), or the Lower City, which was built subsequently to the more fashionable portion of the city on Matthew Zion. The word occurs frequently elsewhere in its ordinary signification of persons or things that occupy a second place in order, dignity, honor, etc. (See Jerusalem).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kol´ej משׁנה mishneh  2 Kings 22:14  2 Chronicles 34:22 Zephaniah 1:10 2 Kings 22:14  2 Chronicles 34:22