Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4195
מוֹתָר
motharmo-thar'
advantage
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: môwthâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4195is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4195
literally gain; figuratively, superiority
The King James renders it: plenteousness, preeminence, 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
mothar is rendered "advantage". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 14:23There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23מוֹתָ֑ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and advantage of1
- profit1
- to advantage1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מוֹת | moth | death | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- וּמוֹתַ֨ר1
- לְמוֹתָ֑ר1
- מוֹתָ֑ר1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Proverbs
two uses
There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- מוֹתָ֑רmotarnoun · masculine singulartagged: profit
The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.
- לְמוֹתָ֑רlemotarpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to advantage
Ecclesiastes
one use
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
- וּמוֹתַ֨רumotarconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and advantage of
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.