“to be conspicuous among a number, to be eminent, distinguished by a thing,” hence, “to be becoming seemly, fit.” The adornment of good works “becometh women professing godliness,” 1Ti 2:10<\/span>. Those who minister the truth are to speak “the things which befit the sound doctrine,” Tit 2:1<\/span>. Christ, as a High Priest “became us,” Heb 7:26<\/span>. In the impersonal sense, it signifies “it is fitting, it becometh,” Mat 3:15<\/span>; 1Co 11:13<\/span>; Eph 5:3<\/span>; Heb 2:10<\/span>. See BEFIT, COMELY. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n from hieros, “sacred,” with the adjectival form of prepo, denotes “suited to a sacred character, that which is befitting in persons, actions or things consecrated to God,” Tit 2:3<\/span>, RV, “reverent,” AV, “as becometh holiness,” (marg., “holy women”). Trench (Syn. xcii) distinguishes this word from kosmios, “modest,” and semnos, “grave, honorable.” <\/p>\n Notes: (1) The AV translates the adverb axios, “as becometh,” in Rom 16:2<\/span>; Phi 1:27<\/span> (RV corrects to “worthily” and “worthy”). <\/p>\n (2) Ginomai, “to become,” is mentioned under various other headings. <\/p>\n (3) For “become of no effect,” Gal 5:4<\/span>, AV, RV, “severed from,” see ABOLISH. <\/p>\n Become (to be fitting) “to be conspicuous among a number, to be eminent, distinguished by a thing,” hence, “to be becoming seemly, fit.” The adornment of good works “becometh women professing godliness,” 1Ti 2:10. Those who minister the truth are to speak “the things which befit the sound doctrine,” Tit 2:1. Christ, as a High … Continue reading “Become (to be fitting)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"