Apt (7 Occurrences)

Apt

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Apt (7 Occurrences)

1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

2 Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Kings 12:21 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men apt for war, to fight against the house of Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
(DBY)

2 Kings 24:16 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Chronicles 7:40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
(KJV)

2 Chronicles 11:1 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men apt for war, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
(DBY)

Proverbs 15:23 A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Thesaurus

Apt (7 Occurrences)
... 4. (a.) Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn;
prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. ...APT. ...
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Retribution (14 Occurrences)
... the influence of the kindly sentiments engendered thereby, and with a view of God's
gracious character as revealed in salvation, that we are apt to overlook ...
/r/retribution.htm - 29k

Behoveth (75 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 3:2 it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife
a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach, (YLT). ...
/b/behoveth.htm - 27k

Quarreling (17 Occurrences)
... & vb. n.) of Quarrel. 2. (a.) Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel;
as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Quarrelsome (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Apt to argue; given to contention; easily irritated
or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Vigilant (4 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant,
sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; (KJV WBS YLT). ...
/v/vigilant.htm - 7k

Neck (97 Occurrences)
... 20 Acts 20:37). In moments of great emotion such salutation is apt to end
in weeping on each other's neck. Readiness for work is ...
/n/neck.htm - 45k

Neighbor (123 Occurrences)
... to love one's neighbor as one's self must not be interpreted as if it implied that
we are to hate our enemy (an inference which the jews were apt to make ...
/n/neighbor.htm - 41k

Narrative (2 Occurrences)
... or transaction. 2. (a.) Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell
particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous. 3. (n.) That ...
/n/narrative.htm - 7k

Orderly (8 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 3:2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one
wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach; (ASV ...
/o/orderly.htm - 9k

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.

2. (a.) Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.

3. (a.) Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.

4. (a.) Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.

5. (v. t.) To fit; to suit; to adapt.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

APT

(Literally, "fitted"): Applied to one distinguished for readiness in meeting demands of some special situation, or emergency. For this, there is no specific Biblical word in either Old Testament or New Testament. It occurs always in the English translations in paraphrases, as "apt for war" (2 Kings 24:16), "apt to teach," Greek "didaktikos" (1 Timothy 3:2 2 Timothy 2:24).

Greek

1317. didaktikos -- apt at teaching
... apt at teaching. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: didaktikos Phonetic
Spelling: (did-ak-tik-os') Short Definition: able to teach, apt to teach ...
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1860. epaggelia -- a summons, a promise
... 1860 (a feminine noun comprised of 1909 , "appropriately " and , "announce") --
a which literally "announces what is fitting" (apt, appropriate). ...
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1967. epiousios -- for the coming day, for subsistence
... 1967 (from 1909 , ", fitting" and 3776 , "being, substance") -- properly, aptly
substantive, appropriate to what is "coming on" (happening), ie (apt) for the ...
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1921. epiginosko -- to know exactly, to recognize
... Both uses of 1921 () work in conjunction with the Greek adverb, 2531 ("to the extent
of)." The "appropriate (apt)" knowledge matches the envisioned "contact ...
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1867. epaineo -- to praise
... Cognate: 1867 (from 1909 , ", fitting" which intensifies 134 , "to praise") -- to
praise in a fitting (apt) manner, ie as appropriate (adequate) to the ...
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1982. episkiazo -- to overshadow
... envelop. 1982 (from 1909 , "upon" and , "to cast shade") -- properly, to
cast a shadow ; , which leaves a natural (apt) result. 1982 ...
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1909. epi -- on, upon
... 1909 ("upon") naturally looks to the response (effect) that goes with the
envisioned , ie its apt result ("spin-offs," effects). ...
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1949. epilambanomai -- to lay hold of
... fitting" intensifying 2983 , " take") -- properly, lay hold of something, showing ("
resolve") that "matches" the seizing (ie laying hold of what is "apt, meet ...
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2026. epoikodomeo -- to build upon
... 2026 (from 1909 , "apt, fitting ," which intensifies 3618 , "to build up, edify") --
properly, build on, following a with () specifications. ...
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2024. epichoregia -- a supply
... supply, provision, equipment, support. Cognate: 2024 -- apt, lavish resources,
making an event a . See 2023 (). Word Origin from ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6213. asah -- do, make
... do, make. Transliteration: asah Phonetic Spelling: (aw-saw') Short Definition:
accomplish. accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, ...
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6310. peh -- mouth
... root Definition mouth NASB Word Usage accord (1), accordance (1), accordance* (1),
accorded (1), according (9), according* (2), apt (1), beak (2), boast* (1 ...
/hebrew/6310.htm - 7k

Library

How we are Rendered Apt for the Perception of Truth through the ...
... Book IV. Chapter 2."How We are Rendered Apt for the Perception of Truth
Through the Incarnate Word. 4. But "the light shineth ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 2 how we are rendered.htm

Whether the Body of Man was Given an Apt Disposition?
... THE PRODUCTION OF THE FIRST MAN'S BODY (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether the body
of man was given an apt disposition? Objection 1: It would ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the body of man.htm

The Marcionites Depreciate the Creation, Which, However, is a ...
... the Creation, Which, However, is a Worthy Witness of God This Worthiness Illustrated
by References to the Heathen Philosophers, Who Were Apt to Invest the ...
/.../the five books against marcion/chapter xiii the marcionites depreciate the.htm

The Eternal Home in Heaven Beautiful Exposition by Tertullian of ...
... Chapter XII."The Eternal Home in Heaven Beautiful Exposition by Tertullian of the
Apostle's Consolatory Teaching Against the Fear of Death, So Apt to Arise ...
/.../tertullian/the five books against marcion/chapter xii the eternal home in.htm

Impossible that Marcion's Christ Should Reprove the Faithless ...
... XXIII."Impossible that Marcion's Christ Should Reprove the Faithless Generation
Such Loving Consideration for Infants as the True Christ Was Apt to Shew ...
/.../chapter xxiii impossible that marcions christ.htm

Of the Four Living Creatures in the Apocalypse, which have Been ...
... I. Chapter VI."Of the Four Living Creatures in the Apocalypse, Which Have Been Taken
by Some in One Application, and by Others in Another, as Apt Figures of ...
/.../augustine/the harmony of the gospels/chapter vi of the four living.htm

Of Meditation: the First and Lowest Degree of Internal Prayer. ...
... Sec. Sec. 1, 2. Of Meditation: the first and lowest degree of internal prayer.
Sec. Sec. 3, 4. Who are apt or unapt for Meditation. Sec. Sec. ...
/.../chapter ii of meditation the.htm

Providence
... Now, when we look abroad into the world we see, as we think, such abundant proofs
that there is a God, that we are apt to treat a man who denies the existence ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/providence.htm

'It is the Lord!'
... of that former event by which the commencement of their ministry had been signalised,
when He called them to become 'fishers of men.' We are apt to suppose ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture st john chaps xv to xxi/it is the lord.htm

An Earnest Warning About Lukewarmness
... May God grant that it may tend to the arousing of us all. I. My first point
will be THE STATE INTO WHICH CHURCHES ARE VERY APT TO FALL. ...
/.../spurgeons sermons volume 20 1874/an earnest warning about lukewarmness.htm

Subtopics

Apt

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Narrative (2 Occurrences)

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