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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 you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”—

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:26 - “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:24 - When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person.[fn] You see to it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:26 - and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:11 - “But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban”—’ (that is, a gift to God),

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:36 - “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:25 - “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:63

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:63 - “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:19 - The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “You see that you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after Him!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:25 - For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:3 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[fn] but have not love, it profits me nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 14:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:2 - Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 4:2 - For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them,[fn] not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:9 - Do not be carried about[fn] with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
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