Strong G5623ὠφελέω
to help
- Transliteration
- ōpheleō
- Pronunciation
- o-fel-eh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From the same as G5622; to be useful that is to benefit: - advantage better prevail profit.
Detailed definition
ὠφελέω, -ῶ
(ὄφελος), [in LXX chiefly for יָעַל hi.;]
to help, benefit, do good, profit: absol., Rom.2:25; οὐδέν (do no good; see Field, Notes, 21), Mat.27:24, Jhn.6:63 12:19; with accusative of person(s), Heb.4:2; with dupl. accusative, Mrk.8:36, 1Co.14:6, Gal.5:2; pass., Heb.13:9; with accusative, Mat.15:5 16:26, Mrk.5:26 7:11, Luk.9:25, 1Co.13:3.†
(AS)
(ὄφελος), [in LXX chiefly for יָעַל hi.;]
to help, benefit, do good, profit: absol., Rom.2:25; οὐδέν (do no good; see Field, Notes, 21), Mat.27:24, Jhn.6:63 12:19; with accusative of person(s), Heb.4:2; with dupl. accusative, Mrk.8:36, 1Co.14:6, Gal.5:2; pass., Heb.13:9; with accusative, Mat.15:5 16:26, Mrk.5:26 7:11, Luk.9:25, 1Co.13:3.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5623 appears in 15 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- profit8
- be3
- profiteth3
- prevail2
- advantage1
- better1
- do1
- have1
First verses
- Matthew 15:5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
- Matthew 16:26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Matthew 27:24When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
- Mark 5:26And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
- Mark 7:11But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
- Mark 8:36For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
- Luke 9:25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
- John 6:63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- John 12:19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
- Romans 2:25For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
- 1 Corinthians 13:3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
- 1 Corinthians 14:6Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
- Galatians 5:2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
- Hebrews 4:2For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
- Hebrews 13:9Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὠφελ-έω,
future -ήσω [Refs (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 358, etc.)]: aorist ὠφέλησα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.127, etc.)]: perfect -ηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 44, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 511e, etc.)]: pluperfect ὠφελήκη [Refs ([prev. author] “Ap.” 31d)]:—passive, future ὠφεληθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.22, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 10.16, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 35, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.20)]; more frequently future middle in passive sense, ὠφελήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.18, 7.67, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 343c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.6.14, variant in 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.61)]: aorist ὠφελήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.39, 5.90, etc.)]: perfect ὠφέλημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 222, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 512a, etc.)]: pluperfect ὠφέλητο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.60)]: (ὄφελος):—help, aid, succour, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (see. below))]; opposed to βλάπτω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.14, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 107d)]; opposed to ζημιόω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.5.)] —Construction:
I absolutely, to be of use or service, τὰ μηδὲν ὠφελοῦντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 44, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 196, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 348 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.9; οὐδὲν ὠφελεῖ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.87; τὸ πολλάκις ὠφελοῦν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.35.)]
I.2 with accusative person, to be of service to, benefit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.95, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 507; τὰς ψυχὰς ὠ. διδάσκοντες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.23)]; ὠ. τινα ἔς τι to be of use to one towards a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.75)]; τί δέ μ᾽ ὠφελήσουσ᾽ οἱ ῥυθμοὶ πρὸς τἄλφιτ; how will rhythms help me to earn my bread? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 648: _absolutely_, ἐπὶ τοῖς δεινοῖσιν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 84; διὰ τῶν ὤτων 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.38c)], compare 145b: with participle, αὐτοὺς ὠφελεῖ προσκείμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 970.)]
I.2.b especially of a general, enrich his soldiers by booty, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aemilius Paulus” 29; τοὺς στρατιώτας ὠφεληκὼς ἀπὸ τῶν στρατειῶν [prev. author] “Caes.” 12; compare ὠφέλεια 11.3.)]
I.3 in Poets also (see. Thom.Mag.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (p.408R.) with _dative_ _person_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 342, “Pers.” 842, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 560, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 666, 681, “Heracl.” 681, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 421 (Lyric poetry); also in 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.38, and variant in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.23)]; the compounds προσωφελέω, ἐπωφελέω, συνωφελέω also take both constructions.
I.4 with genitive, uncertain in οὐδεὶς ἔρωτος τοῦδ᾽ ἐφαίνετ᾽ ὠφελῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 436 (perhaps to be read ἔρωτ᾽ ἐς τόνδ᾽).)]
I.5 with accusative cognate, ὠφελίαν ὠ. τινα to render him a service, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 519e, compare “Euthd.” 275e; ὠφελίαν κοινῇ -οῦνται πάντες οἱ δημιουργοί [prev. author] “R.” 346c: with a _neuter_)] adjective, οὐδέν τινα ὠ. to do one no service, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.126, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 875 (Lyric poetry))]; πολλά, πλέον, πλεῖστον, ὡς πλεῖστα ὠ. τινα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.30, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 679, 681, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.14.)]
II passive, receive help or succour, derive profit or advantage, πρός τινος from a person or thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.68; ἔκ τινος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 222, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.2.3; ἀπό τινος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.64, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.15, compare 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “Pal.” 10)]; ὑπό or παρά τινος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 512a, “Amat.” 132d)]; ὠ. τοῦ νόμου to derive benefit from.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.17 (uncertain reading))]; τινι by a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.67; διά τι [prev. work] 13)]; παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ ὠφελεῖσθαι to make something out of me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.13)]; ἐκ τῶν ὑμετέρων help the mselves, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 27.7)]: especially of troops, acquire booty, πολλὰ παρὰ τὴν στρατείαν ὠ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Ma.” 10; ὠ. δι᾽ ἁρπαγῆς [prev. author] “Marc.” 19)]; ὠφελεῖσθαι πρός τι acquire advantage towards a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.27: with)]participle, ὠφελεῖσθαι ἰδών to be profited by the sight of a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.39: with adjective _neuter_, οὐδὲν ὠφελουμένη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 550: πολλὰ ὠφελεῖσθαι οὐδὲν πονοῦντες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.20.)]
future -ήσω [Refs (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 358, etc.)]: aorist ὠφέλησα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.127, etc.)]: perfect -ηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 44, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 511e, etc.)]: pluperfect ὠφελήκη [Refs ([prev. author] “Ap.” 31d)]:—passive, future ὠφεληθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.22, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 10.16, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 35, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.20)]; more frequently future middle in passive sense, ὠφελήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.18, 7.67, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 343c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.6.14, variant in 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.61)]: aorist ὠφελήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.39, 5.90, etc.)]: perfect ὠφέλημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 222, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 512a, etc.)]: pluperfect ὠφέλητο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.60)]: (ὄφελος):—help, aid, succour, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (see. below))]; opposed to βλάπτω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.14, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 107d)]; opposed to ζημιόω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.5.)] —Construction:
I absolutely, to be of use or service, τὰ μηδὲν ὠφελοῦντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 44, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 196, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 348 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.9; οὐδὲν ὠφελεῖ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.87; τὸ πολλάκις ὠφελοῦν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.35.)]
I.2 with accusative person, to be of service to, benefit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.95, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 507; τὰς ψυχὰς ὠ. διδάσκοντες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.23)]; ὠ. τινα ἔς τι to be of use to one towards a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.75)]; τί δέ μ᾽ ὠφελήσουσ᾽ οἱ ῥυθμοὶ πρὸς τἄλφιτ; how will rhythms help me to earn my bread? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 648: _absolutely_, ἐπὶ τοῖς δεινοῖσιν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 84; διὰ τῶν ὤτων 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.38c)], compare 145b: with participle, αὐτοὺς ὠφελεῖ προσκείμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 970.)]
I.2.b especially of a general, enrich his soldiers by booty, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aemilius Paulus” 29; τοὺς στρατιώτας ὠφεληκὼς ἀπὸ τῶν στρατειῶν [prev. author] “Caes.” 12; compare ὠφέλεια 11.3.)]
I.3 in Poets also (see. Thom.Mag.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (p.408R.) with _dative_ _person_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 342, “Pers.” 842, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 560, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 666, 681, “Heracl.” 681, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 421 (Lyric poetry); also in 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.38, and variant in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.23)]; the compounds προσωφελέω, ἐπωφελέω, συνωφελέω also take both constructions.
I.4 with genitive, uncertain in οὐδεὶς ἔρωτος τοῦδ᾽ ἐφαίνετ᾽ ὠφελῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 436 (perhaps to be read ἔρωτ᾽ ἐς τόνδ᾽).)]
I.5 with accusative cognate, ὠφελίαν ὠ. τινα to render him a service, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 519e, compare “Euthd.” 275e; ὠφελίαν κοινῇ -οῦνται πάντες οἱ δημιουργοί [prev. author] “R.” 346c: with a _neuter_)] adjective, οὐδέν τινα ὠ. to do one no service, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.126, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 875 (Lyric poetry))]; πολλά, πλέον, πλεῖστον, ὡς πλεῖστα ὠ. τινα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.30, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 679, 681, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.14.)]
II passive, receive help or succour, derive profit or advantage, πρός τινος from a person or thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.68; ἔκ τινος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 222, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.2.3; ἀπό τινος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.64, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.15, compare 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “Pal.” 10)]; ὑπό or παρά τινος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 512a, “Amat.” 132d)]; ὠ. τοῦ νόμου to derive benefit from.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.17 (uncertain reading))]; τινι by a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.67; διά τι [prev. work] 13)]; παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ ὠφελεῖσθαι to make something out of me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.13)]; ἐκ τῶν ὑμετέρων help the mselves, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 27.7)]: especially of troops, acquire booty, πολλὰ παρὰ τὴν στρατείαν ὠ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Ma.” 10; ὠ. δι᾽ ἁρπαγῆς [prev. author] “Marc.” 19)]; ὠφελεῖσθαι πρός τι acquire advantage towards a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.27: with)]participle, ὠφελεῖσθαι ἰδών to be profited by the sight of a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.39: with adjective _neuter_, οὐδὲν ὠφελουμένη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 550: πολλὰ ὠφελεῖσθαι οὐδὲν πονοῦντες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.20.)]