Bible Dictionary
CONVENIENT
Convenient, in older Bible language, means suitable, fitting, needful, or occurring at an appropriate time. It may describe an opportune season or something proper to the situation.
Definition
Convenient, in older Bible English, means suitable, seasonable, opportune, needful, right, fitting, or providing an opportunity. Its precise sense depends on the underlying word and context rather than on the modern meaning of convenience.
Biblical Usage
The Revised Version uses “convenient” chiefly for a suitable time or season. In other passages it replaces the older term with “needful,” “right,” “befitting,” “fitting,” or “opportunity.”
Historical Background
The variety of later translations shows that older “convenient” represented several contextual meanings rather than one fixed idea.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>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" (Mr 6:21; Ac 24:25). the King James Version is replaced, in Pr 30:8 the Revised Version (British and American), by "needful" (Hebrew choq), "feed me with the food that is needful for me"; Jer 40:4, by "right"; Eph 5:4, by "befitting"; in Ro 1:28, by "fitting," and in 1Co 16:12, by "opportunity."</p>