Dictionaries :: Use (Noun), Useful

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Use (Noun), Useful:

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

Use (Noun), Useful:

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

Use (Noun), Useful:

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

Notes:

(1) In 2Ti 2:21, the adjective euchrestos, "useful, serviceable" (eu, "well," chraomai, "to use"), is translated "meet for... use;" in 2Ti 4:11, "useful," RV, (AV, "profitable"); in Phm 1:11, "profitable."
See PROFITABLE, B, No. 2.

(2) In 1Cr 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., Pro 31:13. Contrast achrestos, "unprofitable," Phm 1:11.