Lexicon anékó: to be fit, be proper Original Word: ἀνήκωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: anékó Phonetic Spelling: (an-ay'-ko) Short Definition: is due, becoming, suitable, proper Definition: is due, becoming, suitable, proper. HELPS word-Studies 433 anḗkō (from 303 /aná, "up/completing a process" and 2240 /hḗkō, "come") – properly, come up to a particular standard (expectation), i.e. to what is proper (fit, becoming) to give what "is due, suitable" (Souter); doing what is appropriately acceptable. (Col 3:18) is fit (433 /anḗkō) – Note the imperfect tense ("was fitting"). [J. B. Lightfoot, "The past tense involved perhaps implies an essential (a priori) obligation" of what was "owed."] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ana and hékóDefinitionto be fit, be proper NASB Translationfitting (2), proper (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 433: ἀνήκωἀνήκω; (imperfect ἀνῆκεν); in Greek writings to have come up to, arrived at, to reach to, pertain to, followed generally by εἰς τί; hence, in later writings ἀνηκει τί τίνι something appertains to one, is due to him namely, to be rendered or performed by others (1 Macc. 10:42 1 Macc. 11:35; 2 Macc. 14:8), and then ethically τό ἀνῆκον what is due, duty ( R. V. befitting), Philemon 1:8; τά οὐκ ἀνήκοντα unbecoming, discreditable, Ephesians 5:4 ( L T Tr WH ἅ οὐκ ἀνῆκεν, Winers Grammar, 486 (452); ( Buttmann, 850 (301))); impersonally, ὡς ἀνῆκε as was fitting, namely, ever since ye were converted to Christ, Colossians 3:18 ( Winers Grammar, 270 (254); cf. Buttmann, 217 (187) and Lightfoot at the passage).
Strong's fit, proper From ana and heko; to attain to, i.e. (figuratively) be proper -- convenient, be fit. see GREEK ana see GREEK heko |
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