noun · feminine
ōfeleias
Strong’sG5622
usefulness, profit, advantage
stem ōfelei-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
ὠφέλεια (WH, -λία), -ας, ἡ
[in LXX for יָעַל hi., בֶּצַע, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5622 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saido-fel'-i-ah
usefulness, i.e. benefit
Fromfrom a derivative of the base of G5624;
King Jamesadvantage, profit.
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
required by the metre (in iambics), Refs 5th c.BC+; whereas ὠφελία is required in Refs 5th c.BC+: the best codices of Refs 5th c.BC+ is found in Refs 5th c.BC+: Ionic dialect ὠφελίη Refs 5th c.BC+:— help, aid, succour, especially in war, ἔπεμπον ἐς τὴν Ἐπίδαμνον.. τὴν ὠ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπάγεσθαί τινας ἐπ᾽ ὠφελίᾳ for aid, Refs; ἀποχρήσασθαι τῇ ἑκατέρου ἡμῶν ὠ. to make full use of the assistance or services we both can give, Refs 1st c.BC+; οὐδὲν ἰατρικῆς δεῖται οὐδ᾽ ὠφελίας or any other aid, Refs 5th c.BC+; καὶ τοῖσιν ἑλκωθεῖσιν ὠφελίαν (ὠφέλειαν codices, unmetrically) ἔχει Refs
II profit, advantage, βούλευμα ἀπ᾽ οὗ.. οὐδεμία ἔμελλε ὠφελίη ἔσεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν κοινὴν ὠ. φυλάξαι the common interest of all, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to βλάβη, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ζημία, Refs 5th c.BC+ their utility, Refs 5th c.BC+ for their benefit, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὠφελίας ἕνεκα Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν ὠ. ἐστί 'tis of use, Refs 5th c.BC+; after ὠφελεῖν,compare ὠφελέω Refs
II.2 source of gain or profit, service, frequently in plural, τὰς ὠ. τὰς ἐκ τῆς στρατείας.. ἐσομένας Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 especially gain made in war, spoil, booty, LXX+2nd c.BC+; ὠ. μεγάλαι καὶ λάφυρα Refs 2nd c.BC+; τίθεσθαι τὰ χρήματα δι᾽ ὠφελείας to regard as booty, Refs 1st c.BC+; so in the chase, game, Refs 5th c.BC+; so of a thief, ὠ. ἑτοίμην καὶ κατειργασμένην ἀφῆκεν Refs 5th c.BC+ 'to increase the οἶκος᾽; compare ὄφελος.)
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.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ōfeleias1×ὠφέλεια | ōfeleiais |
| object accusative | ōfeleian | ōfeleiain |
| direct address vocative | ōfeleiar | ōfeleiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ōfeleiau1×ὠφελείας | ōfeleiaiu |
| to, for dative | ōfeleia | ōfeleiai |
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
ōfeleia 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
ōfeleias“value”subjectnominative singular1×
Romans 3:1… perissem tou Ioudaiou, ē tinas tas ōfeleias tau peritomau?… a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
ōfeleiau“advantage”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Jude 1:16… stomem autoiu lalatō huperonkeim, thaumazarōntois prosōpeim ōfeleiau charin.… they flatter others for their own advantage.