Greek verb · G5623
ὠφελέω
opheleoo-fel-eh'-o
to help
15 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ōpheléō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5623is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 27New Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5623
to be useful, i.e. to benefit
The King James renders it: advantage, better, prevail, 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
opheleo is rendered "to help". It stands 15 times in the Greek text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 15:5But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’
Matthew 15:5ὠφεληθῇς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eight of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- profits3
- you shall be profited2
- did profit1
- having benefited1
- I am profited1
- is profited1
- it availed1
- they profited1
- will I profit1
- will it be profitable1
- will profit1
- you gain1
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.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- ὠφελεῖ4
- ὠφεληθῇς2
- ὠφελεῖται1
- ὠφελεῖτε1
- ὠφεληθεῖσα1
- ὠφελήθησαν1
- ὠφεληθήσεται1
- ὠφελήσει1
- ὠφέλησεν1
- ὠφελήσω1
- ὠφελοῦμαι.¶1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular4V-PAI-3S
- verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person singular2V-APS-2S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-API-3P
- verb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-APP-NSF
- verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-FAI-1S
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FAI-3S
- verb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FPI-3S
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PAI-2P
- verb · present passive, indicative · 1st person singular1V-PPI-1S
- verb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PPI-3S
Matthew
three uses
But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’
- ὠφεληθῇςopheletheasverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you shall be profited
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- ὠφεληθήσεταιophelethesetaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will it be profitable
When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”
- ὠφελεῖopheleiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it availed
Mark
three uses
She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.
- ὠφεληθεῖσαopheletheisaverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: having benefited
But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God),
- ὠφεληθῇςopheletheasverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you shall be profited
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
- ὠφελεῖopheleiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: profits
Luke
one use
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
- ὠφελεῖταιopheleitaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is profited
John
two uses
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
- ὠφελεῖopheleiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: profits
Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!”
- ὠφελεῖτεopheleiteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you gain
Romans
one use
Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
- ὠφελεῖopheleiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: profits
1 Corinthians
two uses
If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
- ὠφελοῦμαι.¶opheloumaiverb · present passive, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I am profited
Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
- ὠφελήσωophelesoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: will I profit
Galatians
one use
Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
- ὠφελήσειopheleseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will profit
Hebrews
two uses
For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.
- ὠφέλησενophelesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: did profit
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.
- ὠφελήθησανophelethesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they profited
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.