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is translated "befit" in Titus 2:1 , RV (AV, "become"). See BECOME.

primarily, "to have arrived at, reached to, pertained to," came to denote "what is due to a person, one's duty, what is befitting." It is used ethically in the NT; Ephesians 5:4 , RV, "are (not) befitting," for AV, "are (not) convenient;" Colossians 3:18 , concerning the duty of wives towards husbands, RV, "as is fitting," for AV, "as it is fit." In Philemon 1:8 , the participle is used with the article, signifying "that which is befitting," RV (AV, "that which is convenient"). See CONVENIENT. For synonymous words see BECOME.