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Befit, Befitting

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: πρέπω

(Strong's #4241 — Verb — prepo — prep'-o )

is translated "befit" in Titus 2:1 , RV (AV, "become"). See BECOME.

2: ἀνήκω

(Strong's #433 — Verb — aneko — an-ay'-ko )

primarily, "to have arrived at, reached to, pertained to," came to denote "what is due to a person, one's duty, what is befitting." It is used ethically in the NT; Ephesians 5:4 , RV, "are (not) befitting," for AV, "are (not) convenient;" Colossians 3:18 , concerning the duty of wives towards husbands, RV, "as is fitting," for AV, "as it is fit." In Philemon 1:8 , the participle is used with the article, signifying "that which is befitting," RV (AV, "that which is convenient"). See CONVENIENT. For synonymous words see BECOME.

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Befit, Befitting'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​b/befit-befitting.html. 1940.
 
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