ὄφελος
óphelos · G3786 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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advantage, benefit, beneficial
Pertaining to a benefit to be derived from some ob ject, event, or state
Examples1 Corinthians 15:32 If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good is it to me? If the dead are not raised, LET’S EAT AND DRINK, FOR TOMORROW WE DIE.
James 2:14 What use is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him?
James 2:16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- τίςwho? what?, why? for what reason? 3
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Advantage, benefit, beneficial65.40
- ὄφελος names practical usefulness or benefit gained, as James rebukes empty profession without works: “What use is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith, but he does not have works? Can that faith save him?” (James 2:14) — James asks directly what profit such faith brings.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀφελους, τό (ὀφέλλω to increase), advantage, profit: 1 Cor 15:32; Jas 2:14, Jas 2:16.…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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