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Expedient
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or signifies (a), transitively, lit., "to bring together," (sun, "with," phero, "to bring"), Acts 19:19; (b) intransitively, "to be an advantage, profitable, expedient" (not merely 'convenient'); it is used mostly impersonally, "it is (it was) expedient;" so in Matthew 19:10 , RV (negatively), AV, "it is (not) good;" John 11:50; 16:7; 18:14; 1 Corinthians 6:12; 10:23; 2 Corinthians 8:10; 12:1; "it is profitable," Matthew 5:29,30; 18:6 , RV; "was profitable," Acts 20:20; "to profit withal," 1 Corinthians 12:7; in Hebrews 12:10 , used in the neuter of the present participle with the article as a noun, "for (our) profit." See PROFIT. Cp. the adjective sumphoros (or sumpheron), "profitable," used with the article as a noun, 1 Corinthians 7:35; 10:33 .
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Expedient'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/e/expedient.html. 1940.
