Convenient

Suitable and right, 1Ch 1:28 .\par

used in the A.V. only in its old Latin, sense of suitable or becoming, as a rendering of יָשָׁר, yashar’ (Jeremiah xl, 4, 5, “right,” as often elsewhere), חֹק, chok (Pro 30:8, an allotted “portion,” as sometimes elsewhere), καθῆκον (Rom 1:28, “fit,” as in Act 22:22), ἀνῆκον (Eph 5:4; Phm 1:8, “fit,” as in Col 3:18); but εὕκαιρος (Mar 6:21), εὐκαίρως (Mar 14:11), εὐκαιρέω (1Co 16:12), or simply καιρός (Acts’ 24:25), refer to opportuneness of time or season. Similarly in the Apocrypha (καθήκω, Sir 10:23; 1Ma 12:11; 2Ma 4:19; 2Ma 11:36), ἐπιτήδειος, (1Ma 4:46; 1Ma 14:34) ἐπίκαιρος (2Ma 4:32; 2Ma 14:22), simply καιρός (Sir 39:17), or mere construction (2Ma 10:18).

CONVENIENT.—This Eng. word often has in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] its primary meaning of befitting, as Rom 1:28 ‘God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘fitting’). So in the trans. of Agrippa’s Van Artes (1684) ‘She sang and danc’d more exquisitely than was convenient for an honest woman.’

kon-vēn´yent: In the Revised Version (British and American) limited to translation of καιρός, kairós, “suitable time,” “season,” and its compounds: “that which is seasonable” or “opportune” (Mar 6:21; Act 24:25). the King James Version is replaced, in Pro 30:8 the Revised Version (British and American), by “needful” (Hebrew ḥōḳ), “feed me with the food that is needful for me”; Jer 40:4, by “right”; Eph 5:4, by “befitting”; in Rom 1:28, by “fitting,” and in 1Co 16:12, by “opportunity.”