alusitelem

Strong’sG255

profitless, unprofitable

stem alusitel-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

* ἀ-λυσιτελής, -ές,

>(cf. λυσιτελέω),

unprofitable: He 13:17.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G255 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidal-oo-sit-el-ace'

gainless, i.e. (by implication) pernicious

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and the base of G3081;

King Jamesunprofitable.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀλῡσῐ-τελής, ές,
unprofitable, Refs 5th c.BC+ W.; of a person, ἀ. τῇ πόλειRefs 3rd c.BC+: superlative -έστατοςRefs 4th c.BC+. adverb -λῶςRefs 5th c.BC+
II in Medicine texts, unfavourable, of symptoms, Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

unprofitable1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	alusitelos	alusitelas	alusitelem1×ἀλυσιτελὲς	alusitelois	alusitelais	alusiteleim
object accusative	alusitelon	alusitelan		alusiteloin	alusitelain
direct address vocative	alusitelor	alusitelar		alusiteloir	alusitelair
of, belonging to genitive	alusitelou	alusitelau	alusiteleu	alusiteloiu	alusitelaiu	alusiteleiu
to, for dative	alusitelo	alusitela	alusitele	alusiteloi	alusitelai	alusitelei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

alusitelstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

alusitel is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

alusitelem“unprofitable”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Hebrews 13:17“unprofitable”… charau houtem poialeiō kai mē stenazarōntois, alusitelem gar vi houtem.… account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.