ὨΦΕΛΗΣΑΙ, ὠφελησαι
ŌPHELĒSAI, ōphelēsai
Sounds Like: oh-feh-LEE-sai
Translations: to benefit, to help, to profit, to be profitable, to be of use
From the root: ὨΦΕΛΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist active infinitive form of the verb ὠφελέω (ōpheleō), meaning 'to benefit' or 'to help'. It is used to express the purpose or result of an action, indicating that something is done in order to provide assistance or advantage. For example, 'to be able to help them' or 'that which is able to benefit the mind'.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G5623 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:7
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 6:12
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:67
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Letter of Jeremiah — 1:67
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὨΦΕΛΕΩ.
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.
- ὨΦΕΛΕΙΝ — to benefit, to help, to profit, to be useful
- ὨΦΕΛΕΙΤΑΙ — is profited, is benefited, is helped, is advantaged
- ὨΦΕΛΕΙΤΕ — you benefit, you profit, you help, benefit!, profit!, help!
- ὨΦΕΛΗΘΕΝΤΩΝ — (of) those who have been benefited, (of) those who have been helped, (of) those who have been profited
- ὨΦΕΛΗΘΗΣΕΣΘΑΙ — to be benefited, to be profited, to be helped
- ὨΦΕΛΗΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they will be profited, they will be benefited, they will be helped, they will be advantaged
- ὨΦΕΛΗΜΑΙ — I have been benefited, I have been helped, I have gained, I have profited
- ὨΦΕΛΗΜΕΝΟΣ — benefited, profited, helped, having been benefited, having been helped
- ὨΦΕΛΗΣΑ — I benefited, I helped, I profited, I gained
- ὨΦΕΛΗΣΑΙΕΝ — to benefit, to help, to profit, to be useful
- ὨΦΕΛΗΣΑΝ — they benefited, they profited, they helped, they gained
- ὨΦΕΛΗΣΕΙΝ — to benefit, to profit, to help, to be useful
- ὨΦΕΛΗΣΩ — I will profit, I will benefit, I will help, I will be useful
- ὨΦΕΛΙΜΩΣ — profitably, usefully, beneficially
- ὨΦΕΛΟΥΜΑΙ — I am profited, I am benefited, I am helped, I gain
- ὨΦΕΛΟΥΝΤΟ — they were helped, they were profited, they were benefited, they were aided
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