1. to be fitting, proper, or suitable — An impersonal or quasi-impersonal verb meaning 'it is fitting, it is proper, it is becoming,' used to express moral or situational propriety. All target languages render the same concept regardless of whether Greek uses the indicative or participle: Spanish 'conviene/conveniente' (it is suitable), Arabic 'yalīqu/lāʾiq' (it befits/befitting), Korean '합당하다' (to be fitting), Swahili 'yanastahili/inafaa' (it is worthy/it benefits), Hindi 'योग्य है/उचित' (is worthy/proper). The split between indicative (S75562) and participial (S75564) forms is purely morphological with no semantic difference. 7×
AR["لائِقٌ","يَليقُ","يَلِيقُ"]·ben["উচিত","উপযুক্ত","উপযুক্ত-ছিল","যথাযথ","যোগ্য","শোভনীয়"]·DE["geziemen","πρέπον"]·EN["fitting","is-fitting","it-was-fitting","was-fitting"]·FR["convenable","convenir"]·heb["הָ-נָאֶה","נָאֶה","שֶׁיָאֶה","שֶׁנָאֶה"]·HI["उचित","उचित-था","योग्य-है"]·ID["Adalah-layak","Pantas","layak","patut","sesuai"]·IT["essere-conveniente","prepon"]·jav["pantes","patut"]·KO["적합하다","합당하다","합당하였으니","합당한","합당한-것이냐"]·PT["Convinha","convem","conveniente","convinha","convém","próprio"]·RU["Подобало","подобает","подобал","прилично"]·ES["Convenía","conveniente","convenía","conviene","¿apropiado"]·SW["Ilistahili","ilistahili","inafaa","inavyofaa","yanastahili","yanayostahili"]·TR["Yakışırdı","uygun","uygun mudur","yakışan","yakışır","yakışırdı","yarasr"]·urd["مناسب","مناسب-تھا","مناسب-ہو","مناسب-ہے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
πρέπ-ω, imperfect ἔπρεπον, which were the tenses chiefly in use: future πρέψω Refs 5th c.BC+: aorist ἔπρεψα Refs — properly of impressions on the senses, __1 on the eye, to be clearly seen, to be conspicuous among a number, ὁ δ᾽ ἔπρεπε καὶ διὰ πάντων Refs 8th c.BC+; to be distinguished in or by a thing, φάρεσιν μελαγχίμοις Refs 5th c.BC+; shine forth, show itself, πειρῶντι χρυσὸς ἐν βασάνῳ π.…