Greek noun (neuter) · G3786
ὄφελος
ophelosof'-el-os
gain
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: óphelos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3786is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3786
gain
The King James renders it: advantageth, profit.
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
ophelos is rendered "gain". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in James, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 15:32If 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 tomorrow we die.”
The first use
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 tomorrow we die.”
1 Corinthians 15:32ὄφελος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in James.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- profit3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὄφελον | ophelon | I wish! | Uses4 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- ὄφελος3
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular3N-NSN
1 Corinthians
one use
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 tomorrow we die.”
- ὄφελοςophelosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: profit
James
two uses
What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
- ὄφελοςophelosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: profit
If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?
- ὄφελοςophelosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: profit
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.