ὨΦΕΛΙΜΟΣ, ὠφελιμος
ŌPHELIMOS, ōphelimos
Sounds Like: oh-FEH-lee-mos
Translations: profitable, useful, advantageous, beneficial
From the root: ὨΦΕΛΙΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is helpful, beneficial, or advantageous. It is used to indicate that something serves a good purpose or brings a positive outcome. For example, it could describe advice that is useful, or an action that is profitable.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5624 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 9:19
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 56:2
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 19 — 1:133
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 3 — 6:7
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὨΦΕΛΙΜΟΣ.
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.
- ὨΦΕΛΙΜΑ — useful, profitable, beneficial, advantageous, things that are useful, things that are profitable
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