יִתְרוֹן
yithrôwn · H3504 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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advantage
Something that is of benefit to humans; often used in rhetorical questions suggesting that nothing is of benefit at all in a certain situation
ExamplesEcclesiastes 1:3 What advantage does a person have in all his work Which he does under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:11 So I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold, all was futility and striving after wind, and there was no benefit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom surpasses foolishness as light surpasses darkness.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- דַּעַתknowledge 1
- אוֹרlight 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּשֵׁרto be right 1
What it is said to bePredicate
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- מָהwhat?, why? 3
- אַיִןthere is no, not 2
- יֵשׁthere is, there are 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- περισσεία perisseía · G4050 · abundance, a great deal of, very great
- Greek περισσεία (superabundance, surplus) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew יִתְרוֹן (profit, advantage, gain), capturing the semantic core of 'what exceeds or remains beyond' that both terms denote—the Hebrew emphasizing economic/practical advantage, the Greek emphasizing quantitative excess, but converging on the concept of beneficial surplus.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Well002001003018
- The noun names profit or advantage, a favorable gain or benefit, as in its glossed sense "better... profit(-able)," most notably in Ecclesiastes' repeated questioning of what profit remains under the sun.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3504. yithron יִתְרוֺן noun [masculine] advantage, profit, only Ecclesiastes; — absolute…
יִתְרוֺן noun [masculine] advantage, profit, only Ecclesiastes; — absolute Ecc 1:3-4t.; construct Ecc 2:13 Ecc 2:4t.; — advantage to (ל) any one, לָאָדָם מַהיִֿתְרוֺן Ecc 1:3, i.e. what advantage hath a man ? Ecc 5:15; Ecc 10:11; followed by מִן comparative = advantage beyond, more than Ecc 2:13 (twice in verse); construct הָעוֺשֶׂה יִתְרוֺן Ecc 3:9 advantage of (for) him that worketh; אֶדֶץ יִתְרוֺן Ecc 5:8; דַּעַת יִתְרוֺן Ecc 7:12 advantage of knowledge; חָכְמָה הַכְשֵׁיר וְיִתְרוֺן Ecc 10:10 an advantage for giving success is wisdom; absolute הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ תַּחַת יִתְרוֺן אֵין Ecc 2:11.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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
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