יַעַל

Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

1 Samuel 12:21

• יוֹעִ֛ילוּyoiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will benefit

Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?

Job 15:3

• יוֹעִ֥ילyoilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: anyone profits

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

Job 21:15

• נּ֝וֹעִ֗ילnoilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: will we gain

They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.

Job 30:13

• יֹעִ֑ילוּyoiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they benefit

For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

Job 35:3

• אֹ֝עִ֗ילʾoilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I profit

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Proverbs 10:2

• י֭וֹעִילוּyoiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they profit

Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Proverbs 11:4

• יוֹעִ֣ילyoilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it profits

everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”

Isaiah 30:5

• יוֹעִ֣ילוּyoiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will confer profit
• לְהוֹעִ֔ילlehoilpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to confer profit

This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

Isaiah 30:6

• יוֹעִֽילוּ׃yoiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will confer profit

All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

Isaiah 44:9

• יוֹעִ֑ילוּyoiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they confer profit

Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

Isaiah 44:10

• הוֹעִֽיל׃hoilverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to confer profit

So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!

Isaiah 47:12

• הוֹעִ֖ילhoilverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to profit

Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.

Isaiah 48:17

• לְהוֹעִ֔ילlehoilpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to profit

I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

Isaiah 57:12

• יוֹעִילֽוּךְ׃yoilukhverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: they will benefit you

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

Jeremiah 2:8

• יוֹעִ֖לוּyoiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they profited

Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

Jeremiah 2:11

• יוֹעִֽיל׃yoilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it profits

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

Jeremiah 7:8

• הוֹעִֽיל׃hoilverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to profit

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

Jeremiah 12:13

• יוֹעִ֑לוּyoiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they have profited

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

Jeremiah 16:19

• מוֹעִֽיל׃moilverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: a profits

“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 23:32

• וְהוֹעֵ֛ילvehoeilconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: and certainly to benefit
• יוֹעִ֥ילוּyoiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they benefit

What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

Habakkuk 2:18

• הוֹעִ֣ילhoilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does it profit