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Lexicon :: Strong's G5623 - ōpheleō

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ὠφελέω
Transliteration
ōpheleō (Key)
Pronunciation
o-fel-eh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as ὠφέλεια (G5622)
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Strong’s Definitions

ὠφελέω ōpheléō, o-fel-eh'-o; from the same as G5622; to be useful, i.e. to benefit:—advantage, better, prevail, profit.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G5623 in the following manner: profit (11x), prevail (2x), better (1x), advantage (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G5623 in the following manner: profit (11x), prevail (2x), better (1x), advantage (1x).

  1. to assist, to be useful or advantageous, to profit

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὠφελέω ōpheléō, o-fel-eh'-o; from the same as G5622; to be useful, i.e. to benefit:—advantage, better, prevail, profit.
STRONGS G5623:
ὠφελέω, ὠφέλω; future ὠφελήσω; 1 aorist ὠφέλησα; passive, present ὠφελοῦμαι; 1 aorist ὠφελήθην; 1 future ὠφεληθήσομαι (Matthew 16:26 L T Tr WH); (ὄφελος); from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; the Sept. for הועִיל; to assist, to be useful or advantageous, to profit: absolutely, Romans 2:25; with the accusative οὐδέν, to be of no use, to effect nothing, Matthew 27:24; John 6:63; John 12:19 (in these examples (John 6:63 excepted) A. V. prevail); τινα, to help or profit one, Hebrews 4:2; τινα τί to help, profit, one in a thing ((but the second accusative is a cognate accusative or the accusative of a neuter adjective or pronoun; cf. Winers Grammar, 227 (213)) so from Herodotus 3, 126 down): οὐδέν τινα, 1 Corinthians 14:6; Galatians 5:2; τί ὠφελήσει (or ὠφελεῖ (τόν)) ἄνθρωπον, ἐάν κτλ.; ((T WH follow with an infinitive)), what will (or 'doth') it profit a man if etc. ((or 'to' etc.))? Mark 8:36; passive, ὠφελοῦμαι, to be helped or profited: Hebrews 13:9; with the accusative μηδέν, Mark 5:26; οὐδέν, 1 Corinthians 13:3; with the accusative of the interrogative τί, Matthew 16:26; Luke 9:25 (here WH marginal reading gives the active); τί ἐκ τίνος (genitive of person), to be profited by one m some particular (cf. Meyer on Matt. as below; ἐκ, II. 5), Matthew 15:5; Mark 7:11.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
15:5; 16:26; 16:26; 27:24
Mark
5:26; 7:11; 8:36
Luke
9:25
John
6:63; 6:63; 12:19
Romans
2:25
1 Corinthians
13:3; 14:6
Galatians
5:2
Hebrews
4:2; 13:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5623 matches the Greek ὠφελέω (ōpheleō),
which occurs 15 times in 15 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:5 - But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever it be by which received from me thou wouldest be profited:

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:26 - For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:24 - And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but that rather a tumult was arising, having taken water, washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this righteous one: see *ye* to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:26 - and had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent everything she had and had found no advantage from it, but had rather got worse,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:11 - But *ye* say, If a man say to his father or his mother, It is corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by ...

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:36 - For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:25 - For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:63

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:63 - It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:19 - The Pharisees therefore said to one another, Ye see that ye profit nothing: behold, the world is gone after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:25 - For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:3 - And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:6 - And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:2 - Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 4:2 - For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit *them*, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:9 - Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.
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