ofelem

Strong’sG3786

advantage, gain, profit

stem ofel-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 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.

ὄφελος, -ους, τό

(< ὀφέλλω, to increase), [in LXX: Jb 15:3 (יעל hi.)*;]

advantage, help: I Co 15:32, Ja 2:14, 16.†

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

Strong’s G3786 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidof'-el-os

gain

Fromfrom ὀφέλλω (to heap up, i.e. accumulate or benefit);

King Jamesadvantageth, 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

ὄφελος, τό,
(ὀφέλλω B) only in nominative and accusative singular, furtherance, advantage, help, αἴ κ᾽ ὄφελός τι γενώμεθα in case we can be of any use, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὅς τοι πόλλ᾽ ὄ. γένετο who was a help to thee in many matters, Refs; οὐδὲν σοί γ᾽ ὄ. not as any good to thee,; Refs 5th c.BC+; τί ζῆν ὄ. ᾧ μή 'στι τὸ ζῆν εἰδέναι ; Refs 4th c.BC+
2 with genitive, φυγᾶς ὄ. εἴ τί μοι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐλευθερίας οὐδὲν ὄ. Refs 5th c.BC+
3 ὅ τι πέρ ἐστ᾽ ὄ. ἐν τῇ πόλει all that is best, all the best people, Refs 5th c.BC+ the serviceable part (or perhaps the flower) of the army, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅ τι περ.. ἀπληστίας ὄ. the flower (acme) of gluttony, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 with genitive objecti, help against a thing, Refs 2nd 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.

good2×gained1×

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 or object direct	ofelem3×ὄφελος	ofeleim
of, belonging to genitive	ofeleu	ofeleiu
to, for dative	ofele	ofelei

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

ofelstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ofele 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

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

ofelon — ὄφελον, O that! I wish! Would that!

Where it appears

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

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

ofelem“good”subject or objectdirect singular3×

1 Corinthians 15:32“gained”… thēriomachama en Efesa, tinem mi tem ofelem? ei nekrois ouk egerolō, Esthianeia kai …If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for …

James 2:14Tinem ofelem, adelfoir mu, ean pistian legateiō tinos …What good is it, my brothers, if someone …

James 2:16… autoi teim epitēdeieim teu sōmeu, tinem ofelem?… provide for his physical needs, what good is that?