Meaning
Expedient <1,,4851, sumphero>
signifies (a), transitively, lit., "to bring together," (sun, "with," phero, "to bring"), Act 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 Mat 19:10, RV (negatively), AV, "it is (not) good;" Joh 11:50, Joh 16:7, Joh 18:14, 1Co 6:12, 1Co 10:23, 2Co 8:10, 2Co 12:1; "it is profitable," Mat 1:5-30, Mat 18:6, RV; "was profitable," Act 20:20; "to profit withal," 1Co 12:7; in Heb 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, 1Co 7:35, 1Co 10:33.
