Behavior
Behavior
be-havyer (, taam, taste, flavor, hence, intellectual taste, i.e. judgment, reason, understanding): Of significance as referring to David’s feigning madness before Aehish, king of Gath, being sore afraid. Gesenius renders it changed his understanding, i.e. his mental behavior and outward manner (1Sa 21:13, and title to Ps 34).
Twice used in the New Testament (the King James Version) of the well-ordered life of the Christian (, kosmios, well-arranged, modest, i.e. living with decorum: 1Ti 3:2), defining the blameless life expected of a minister (overseer), A bishop must be…. of good behavior, the Revised Version (British and American) orderly (, katastema, demeanor, deportment), including, according to Dean Alford, gesture and habit as the outward expression of a reverent spirit (1Pe 3:1, 1Pe 3:2). Aged women … in behavior as becometh holiness (Tit 2:3; the Revised Version (British and American) reverent in demeanor).