ὨΦΕΛΗΣΕΝ, ὠφελησεν
ŌPHELĒSEN, ōphelēsen
Sounds Like: oh-feh-LEE-sen
Translations: benefited, profited, helped, was useful
From the root: ὨΦΕΛΈΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to benefit, to be useful, or to help someone. It is often used to ask what good something did or what profit was gained from an action. It describes an action that resulted in advantage or assistance.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Active, 3rd Person Singular
Strong’s number: G5623 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 3:14
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Hebrews — 4:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὨΦΕΛΈΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ὨΝΗΣΕΝ — he benefited, it benefited, he profited, it profited, he helped, it helped
- ὨΦΕΛΗΘΗΣΑΝ — they were profited, they were benefited, they were helped, they gained
- ὨΦΕΛΟΥΝ — they were profiting, they were benefiting, they were helping, they were gaining
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