Be proper

Usually translated “fitting”, “becoming” and “is proper”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• fitting 1
• becoming 1
• is proper 1
• is becoming 1
• are consistent with 1
• it was fitting 1
• was fitting 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Hebrews 2
• Matthew 1
• 1 Corinthians 1
• Ephesians 1
• 1 Timothy 1
• Titus 1

6 books in all.

• Property (rekhush)
• Properly (euschēmonōs)
• Be fit (kathēkō)
• Wealth (nekhas)

• Titus 2:1In contextBut speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
• Matthew 3:15And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
• 1 Corinthians 11:13Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
• Ephesians 5:3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Hebrews 2:10For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• Hebrews 7:26For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “fitting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.