Benefit

Benefit - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

BEN'EFIT, n. [Primarily from L. beneficium, or benefactum.]

1. An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

Bless the Lord,O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Psa 103.

2. Advantage; profit; a word of extensive use, and expressing whatever contributes to promote prosperity and personal happiness, or add value to property.

Men have no right to what is not for their benefit.

3. In law, benefit of clergy. [See Clergy.]

BEN'EFIT, v.t. To do good to; to advantage; to advance in health, or prosperity; applied either to persons or things; as, exercise benefits health; trade benefits a nation.

BEN'EFIT, v.i. To gain advantage; to make improvement; as, he has benefited by good advice; that is, he has been benefited.

ben'-e-fit (gemul = "a deed," 2Ch 32:25); yaTabh = (causat.) "to make well," "to do good" (Jer 18:10). The plural of gemul, is found is found in Ps 103:2. Ps 68:19 (the King James Version) should be translated "Blessed be the Lord. Day by day he sustains us; God is our salvation." charis = "gift"; "grace" (2Co 1:15, "a second benefit": that is, two visits in the same journey). euergesia = "good deed done" (1Ti 6:2: "because they that partake of the benefit (of their service) are believing and beloved"); agathos = "good" (Philemon 1:14, the King James Version; the Revised Version (British and American) "goodness").

Frank E. Hirsch