Bible dictionaries
Commodious
What Bible dictionaries say about “Commodious”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Commodious - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
COMMODIOUS, a. Convenient; suitable; fit; proper; adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; as a commodious house or room.
The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts 27:12.
It is followed by for before a noun; as a place commodious for a camp.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
ko-mo'-di-us (aneuthetos, "not well placed"): The word occurs only in Ac 27:12. "As regards wintering, the place was certainly `not commodious,' but as regards shelter from some winds (including Northwest), it was a good anchorage" (Code of Hammurabi, XXIII, 639).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915