Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate. 2. (a.) Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things. 3. (a.) Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons. 4. (a.) Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. 5. (v. t.) To fit; to suit; to adapt. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia APT (Literally, "fitted"): Applied to one distinguished for readiness in meeting demands of some special situation, or emergency. For this, there is no specific Biblical word in either Old Testament or New Testament. It occurs always in the English translations in paraphrases, as "apt for war" (2 Kings 24:16), "apt to teach," Greek "didaktikos" (1 Timothy 3:2 2 Timothy 2:24).

Multi-Version Concordance Apt (7 Occurrences) 1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; (KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV) 2 Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, (KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV) 1 Kings 12:21 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men apt for war, to fight against the house of Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. (DBY) 2 Kings 24:16 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV) 1 Chronicles 7:40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men. (KJV) 2 Chronicles 11:1 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men apt for war, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. (DBY) Proverbs 15:23 A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is! (See NAS RSV NIV)