anōfelas

Strong’sG512

useless, unprofitable

stem anōfel-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.

ἀν-ωφελής, -ές

(ἀ- neg., ὄφελος), [in LXX: Is 44:10 (הוֹעִיל בִּלְתִּי), Je 2:8 (הוֹעִיל לֹא), Pr 28:3, Wi 1:11*;]

unprofitable: Tit 3:9; neut. as subst., unprofitableness: He 7:18.†

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

Strong’s G512 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidan-o-fel'-ace

useless or (neuter) inutility

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and the base of G5624;

King Jamesunprofitable(-ness).

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

ἀνωφελ-ής, ές,
unprofitable, useless, ἁβροσύναιRefs 6th c.BC+
2 hurtful, prejudicial, Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -έστεροςRefs 5th c.BC+. adverb -λῶςRefs 4th 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×uselessness1×

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	anōfelos	anōfelas	anōfelem1×ἀνωφελές	anōfelois	anōfelais1×ἀνωφελεῖς	anōfeleim
object accusative	anōfelon	anōfelan		anōfeloin	anōfelain
direct address vocative	anōfelor	anōfelar		anōfeloir	anōfelair
of, belonging to genitive	anōfelou	anōfelau	anōfeleu	anōfeloiu	anōfelaiu	anōfeleiu
to, for dative	anōfelo	anōfela	anōfele	anōfeloi	anōfelai	anōfelei

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

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

anōfel 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

anōfelem“uselessness”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Hebrews 7:18“uselessness”… entolau dia tem autau asthenem kai anōfelem,… the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless

anōfelais“unprofitable”subjectnominative plural1×

Titus 3:9“unprofitable”… kai machain nomikain peristēosōr, alō gar anōfelais kai mataiais.But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.