adjective.
Obliged to answer or be called to account (to somebody); accountable, responsible.
adjective.Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to).
adjective.Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.
adjective.
Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
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adjective.
capable of being answered
adjective.
morally or legally responsible to a higher authority
Word Usage
"Lowth's translation, "He was made answerable," is hardly admitted by the Hebrew. opened not ... mouth -- Jer 11: 19; and David in Ps 38: 13, 14; 39: 9, prefiguring Messiah (Mt 26: 63; 27: 12, 14; 1Pe 2: 23)."