Bible Dictionary
FIT, FITLY
Fit means suitable, ready, properly formed, or able for a purpose. In biblical contexts it can describe readiness, appropriateness, preparation, or being appointed for a particular outcome.
Definition
Fit means suitable, ready, able, properly formed, well placed, or prepared for a purpose. Fitly can mean appropriately or in due season. The word may describe readiness, ability, shape, suitability, or being made ready for an appointed outcome.
Biblical Usage
Biblical translations use fit for readiness, ability, proper formation, suitability, and preparation. It can describe a person or thing being ready, a vessel fitted for destruction, something suitable, or an expression spoken in due season. The Revised Version often replaces the older word with more precise terms.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>fit'-li:</p><p>The word "fit" (adjective and verb) occurs a few times, representing nearly as many Hebrew and Greek words. the Revised Version (British and American) frequently alters, as in Le 16:21 (`itti, "timely," "opportune," "ready"), where for "fit" it reads "in readiness," margin "appointed." In 1Ch 7:11 the Revised Version (British and American) has "that were able"; in Isa 44:13, "shapeth"; in Pr 24:27, "ready," etc. "Fitly" in Pr 25:11 is in the Revised Version, margin "in due season"; in So 5:12, "fitly set" is in the Revised Version, margin "sitting by full streams." In the New Testament "fit" is the translation of euthetos, "well placed" (Lu 9:62; 14:35), of kathekon, "suitable" (Ac 22:22), and of katartizo, "to make quite ready" (Ro 9:22, "vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction").</p><p>W. L. Walker</p>