Greek inj · G3785
ὄφελον
ophelonof'-el-on
I wish!
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: óphelon
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3785is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3785
I ought (wish), i.e. (interjection) oh that!
The King James renders it: would (to God).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ophelon is rendered "I wish!". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 4:8Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
1 Corinthians 4:8ὄφελόν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I wish3
- I wish that1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὄφελος | ophelos | gain | Uses3 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὄφελον3
- ὄφελόν1
The grammar of each form
- particle4PRT
1 Corinthians
one use
Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
- ὄφελόνophelonparticletagged: I wish that
2 Corinthians
one use
I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
- Ὄφελονhophelonparticletagged: I wish
Galatians
one use
As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
- ὄφελονophelonparticletagged: I wish
Revelation
one use
I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!
- ὄφελονophelonparticletagged: I wish
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.