Fit (Adjective and Verb), Fitly, Fitting

New Testament

Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words

Definition

A-1euthetosAdjectiveG2111

"ready for use, fit, well adapted," lit., "well placed" (eu, "well," tithemi, "to place"), is used (a) of persons, Luk 9:62, negatively, of one who is not fit for the kingdom of God; (b) of things, Luk 14:35, of salt that has lost its savor; rendered "meet" in Heb 6:7, of herbs. See MEET.

A-2arestosAdjectiveG701

"pleasing" (akin to aresko, "to please"), is translated "(it is not) fit," RV (AV, "reason"), in Act 6:2. See PLEASE, REASON.

B-1anekoVerbG433

properly, "to have come up to" (ana, "up," and heko, "to arrive"), is translated "is fitting," in Col 3:18, RV. See BEFITTING.

B-2kathekoVerbG2520

"to come or reach down to" (kata, "down"), hence, "to befit, be proper," is translated "is (not fit)" in Act 22:22; in Rom 1:28, RV, "fitting" (AV, "convenient"). See CONVENIENT.

B-3kataritzoVerbG2675

"to make fit, to equip, prepare" (kata, "down," artos, "a joint"), is rendered "fitted" in Rom 9:22, of vessels of wrath; here the Middle Voice signifies that those referred to "fitted" themselves for destruction (as illustrated in the case of Pharaoh, the self-hardening of whose heart is accurately presented in the RV in the first part of the series of incidents in the Exodous narrative, which records Pharaoh's doings; only after repeated and persistent obstinacy on his part is it recorded that God hardened his heart.) See FRAME, JOIN, PERFECT, PREPARE, RESTORE.

B-4sunarmologeoVerbG4883

"to fit or frame together" (sun, "with," harmos, "a joint, in building," and lego, "to choose"), is used metaphorically of the various parts of the church as a building, Eph 2:21, "fitly framed together;" also of the members of the church as the body of Christ, Eph 4:16, RV, "fitly framed ... together."