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Use, Useful

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

akin to echo, "to have," denotes "habit, experience, use," Hebrews 5:14 .

"need," is translated "uses" in Titus 3:14; in Eph.4:29, AV, "(for the) use (of edifying)," RV, "(as the) need (may be)." See NECESSITY , NEED.

"use" (akin to chraomai, "to use"), occurs in Romans 1:26,27 .

Notes: (1) In 2 Timothy 2:21 , the adjective euchrestos, "useful, serviceable" (eu, "well," chraomai, "to use"), is translated "meet for ... use;" in 2 Timothy 4:11 , "useful," RV, (AV, "profitable"); in Philemon 1:11 , "profitable." See PROFITABLE , B, No. 2. (2) In 1 Corinthians 8:7 the best texts have the noun sunetheia, RV, "being used," lit., "by the custom (of the idol)," i.e., by being associated. See CUSTOM. In the Sept., Proverbs 31:13 . Contrast achrestos, "unprofitable," Philemon 1:11 .