3786. ophelos
Lexicon
ophelos: Profit, advantage, benefit

Original Word: ὄφελος
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: ophelos
Pronunciation: o'-fe-los
Phonetic Spelling: (of'-el-os)
KJV: advantageth, profit
NASB: use, profit
Word Origin: [from ophello "to heap up" (i.e. accumulate or benefit)]

1. gain

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
advantage, profit.

From ophello (to heap up, i.e. Accumulate or benefit); gain -- advantageth, profit.

HELPS Word-studies

3786 óphelos (from ophellō, "heap together") – properly, "something heaped up," i.e. the advantage (profit) a believer accumulates in life by living in faith. This gives the "edge," i.e. the preferred position that also brings "cumulative advantage."

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from ophelló (to increase)
Definition
advantage, help
NASB Translation
profit (1), use (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3786: ὄφελος

ὄφελος, ὀφελους, τό (ὀφέλλω to increase), advantage, profit: 1 Corinthians 15:32; James 2:14, 16. (From Homer down; the Sept. Job 15:3.)

Forms and Transliterations
οφελος όφελος ὄφελος ophelos óphelos
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Englishman's Concordance
1 Corinthians 15:32 N-NNS
GRK: μοι τὸ ὄφελος εἰ νεκροὶ
NAS: what does it profit me? If
KJV: Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if
INT: to me the profit if [the] dead

James 2:14 N-NNS
GRK: Τί τὸ ὄφελος ἀδελφοί μου
NAS: What use is it, my brethren, if
KJV: What [doth it] profit, my brethren,
INT: What [is] the profit brothers of me

James 2:16 N-NNS
GRK: τί τὸ ὄφελος
NAS: for [their] body, what use is that?
KJV: to the body; what [doth it] profit?
INT: what [is] the profit

Strong's Greek 3786
3 Occurrences


ὄφελος — 3 Occ.

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