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1.
(
&
, 2825), akin to
, “to lean” (Eng., “recline, incline” etc.), “a bed,”
e.g., Mark 7:30, also denotes a “couch” for reclining at meals, Mark 4:21, or a “couch”
for carrying the sick, Matt. 9:2, 6. The metaphorical phrase “to cast into a bed,” Rev.
2:22, signifies to afflict with disease (or possibly, to lay on a bier). In Mark 7:4 the
KJV
curiously translates the word “tables” (marg., “beds”),
RV
, marg. only, “couches.” See
COUCH
.
2.
(
&
, 2825*), a diminutive of No. 1, “a small bed,” is used in Acts
5:15. Some mss. have
. See also No. 4. See
COUCH
.¶
3.
(
&
, 2845), primarily “a place for lying down” (connected with
, “to
lie”), denotes a “bed,” Luke 11:7; the marriage “bed,” Heb. 13:4; in Rom. 13:13, it is
used of sexual intercourse. By metonymy, the cause standing for the effect, it denotes
conception, Rom. 9:10.¶
4.
(
$1
, 2895), a Macedonian word (Lat.
$
), is “a somewhat
mean bed, pallet, or mattress for the poor,” Mark 2:4, 9, 11-12; 6:55; John 5:8-11; Acts
5:15; 9:33. See also No. 2. See
COUCH
.¶
Note:
The verb
$
or
$
, “to spread,” signifies, in Acts 9:34, “to make
a bed”; elsewhere it has its usual meaning. See
FURNISH
,
SPREAD
.
BEFALL
1.
(
&
, 1096), “to become,” is rendered “befell” in Mark 5:16; “hath
befallen” in Rom. 11:25,
RV
, for
KJV
, “is happened to”; so the
RV
in 2 Cor. 1:8; 2 Tim.
3:11.
2.
$
(
&
, 4819), lit., “to walk, or go together” (
$
, “with,”
, “to
go”), is used of things which happen at the same time; hence, “to come to pass, befall,”
Acts 20:19. In 21:35, it is translated “so it was.” See
HAPPEN
.
3.
$
(
1
, 4876), “to meet with” (
$
, “with,”
, “to meet”), is
used much in the same way as
$
, of events which come to pass; “befall,” Acts
20:22. See
MEET
.
Note:
The phrase in Matt. 8:33, “what was befallen to them that were possessed with
demons,” is, lit., “the things of the demonized.”
BEFIT, BEFITTING
1.
(
$!
, 4241) is translated “befit” in Titus 2:1,
RV
(
KJV
, “become”). See
BECOME
.
2.
(
)
, 433), 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; Eph. 5:4,
RV
, “are (not) befitting,” for
KJV
, “are (not) convenient”; Col. 3:18,
concerning the duty of wives towards husbands,
RV
, “as is fitting,” for
KJV
, “as it is fit.”
In Philem. 8, the participle is used with the article, signifying “that which is befitting,”
RV
* Intensives, diminuitives, comparatives, or similar forms of other words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with a single asterisk (for instance,
, from
is
1652*).