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CONVENIENT

kon-ven'-yent: In the Revised Version (British and American) limited to translation of kairos, "suitable time," "season," and its compounds: "that which is seasonable" or "opportune" (Mark 6:21; Acts 24:25). the King James Version is replaced, in Proverbs 30:8 the Revised Version (British and American), by "needful" (Hebrew choq), "feed me with the food that is needful for me"; Jeremiah 40:4, by "right"; Ephesians 5:4, by "befitting"; in Romans 1:28, by "fitting," and in 1 Corinthians 16:12, by "opportunity."

 

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

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