Become (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. As tr. of rp4ir<o ' to be seemly,' 'appropriate,' 'b.' is found Mt 3", Eph 5», 1 Ti 2", Tit 2' (RV 'befit'). He 2'» 7» 'such an high priest became us.' In Tit 2' 'in behaviour as becometh holiness' (RV 'reverent in demean- our'), the Gr. is one word lepowpeir-fit, from Upds 'sacred' and irp^jrei 'it is becoming.' In Ro 16' ' as becometh saints ' the Gr. is d^lus tuv ayluv ' worthily of the saints' ; so in Ph 1' ' as it becometh the gospel of Christ' (RV ' worthy of). 2. In Ear 3" occurs the obsolete phrase ' wliere is become,' for ' what is become of ' : ' Where are the princes of the heathen become?' (RV omits 'be- come'). Cf. Wither (1628), ' Wliv should the wicked . . . say. Where is their Got! become ? ' J. Hastings. BECTILETH Plain (t4 ireStop BancTeiXaW), Jth 2". — lietween Nineveh and Cilicia. Perhaps the Bactiali of the Peutinger Tables, 21 miles from Antioch. The Syriac supposes an original reading, nSep n'3 ' house of slaughter ' (?). C. R. Conder. BED (for which RV substitutes ' couch 'in 1 Cli 5', Est 1« 1\ Job 17", Ps 41', Pr 7'«, Ca 1", and ' litter ' in Ca 3') is AV tr. of the follo\ving Hob. words: — 1. sjfO (fr. 3;?' 'lie down ') 40 times. 2. ]in: (fr. ys; 'spread out') poet. 1 Ch 5' (fr. Gn 49), Job 17", Ps 63' 132^ 3. VS? (fr. same root) Is 28*. 4. ••""!; ('flower-bed') twice, Ca 5" 6^ to which RV'adds Ezk 17'-". 5. na? (fr. .19; 'stretch out') 26 times. 6. leny (a four-post bed ?) 4 times. Job 7'», Ps 41», Pt V\ Ca 1". The last two words appear to be parallel in meaning in Am 6, 'that lie upon beds (niap) of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches (dcicoj;).' Both are used also in the sense of ' bier,' .lao in 2 S 3', bij; in Syr. (comp. 'arsd' in Lk ■?"), while 3;?'? is applied in 2 Ch 16" to Asa's resting-place in his tomb. All this lends support to the opinion of thoae who interpret the ' bedstead ' of Og (Dt 3") of a sarcophagus (see Driver, ad loc). The word noD, written without vowel points, might be read either nep ' bed ' or ne? ' staff. Hence in Gn 47'^ we find, ' Israel bowed iiimself upon the bed's head, the tr. following MT (.lEpn oi^t^v), while in He IP' we have 'Jacob worshipped, leaning upon the top 0/ his staff,' which adopts the LXX iwl t6 iKpop riis pd^Sov avToO. See next article. J. A. Selbie.