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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mēt , adjective ( ושר , yāshār ; ἄξιος , áxios ): Various words are employed to express meetness, the sense of what is proper, worthy, or fit. We have yāshār , "straight," "upright," "right" ( 2 Kings 10:3 , "meetest"; Jeremiah 26:14 , the Revised Version (British and American) "right"); yāshār (Jeremiah 27:5 , the Revised Version (British and American) "right"); yōsher (Proverbs 11:24 , the Revised Version margin "what is justly due"); 'ărı̄kh , Aramaic "meet" (Ezra 4:14 ); benē , "sons of" (Deuteronomy 3:18 , the King James Version "meet for the war," margin "Hebrew sons of power," the Revised Version (British and American) "men of valor"); kūn , "to be right" etc. (Exodus 8:26 ); ‛āsāh "to be made," "used" (Ezekiel 15:5 twice, the Revised Version margin "made into"), cālēaḥ , "to be good or fit for" (Ezekiel 15:4 , the Revised Version (British and American) "profitable"); rā'āh , "seen," "looked out," "chosen" (Esther 2:9 ); axios , "worthy" (Matthew 3:8; Acts 26:20 , the Revised Version (British and American) "worthy"; 1 Corinthians 16:4; 2 Thessalonians 1:3 ); dı́kaios , "just," "right" (Philippians 1:7 the Revised Version (British and American) "right"; 2 Peter 1:13 the Revised Version (British and American) "right"); eúthetos , "we set" (Hebrews 6:7 ); eúchrēstos , "very useful," "profitable" (2 Timothy 2:21 , "meet for the master's use"); hikanós , "sufficient" (1 Corinthians 15:9 ); hikanóō , "to make sufficient" (Colossians 1:12 ); kalós , "beautiful," "honest" (Matthew 15:26; Mark 7:27 ); deı́ "it behooveth" (Luke 15:32; Romans 1:27 , the Revised Version (British and American) "due"). For "meet" (supplied) (Judges 5:30 ), the Revised Version (British and American) has "on"; for "Surely it is meet to be said unto God" (Job 34:31 ), "For hath any said unto God?" In 2 Macc 9:12, we have dikaios , the Revised Version (British and American) "right."