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Advantage

ὠφέλειαStrong’s G5622

ōpheleia

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Ōpheleia is the Greek word usually translated “benefit” and “profit”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.”
Jude 1:16 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “benefit” and “profit”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • benefit 1
  • of profit 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Romans 1
  • Jude 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

ὠφέλεια ōpheleia · advantage

ὠφέλεια (WH, -λία), -ας, ἡ [in LXX for יָעַל hi., בֶּצַע, etc. ;] 1. assistance, help (Thuc., Plat., al.). 2. profit, advantage, benefit (Hdt., Plat., al.): Rom.3:1, Ju 16.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “advantage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

ADV'ANTAGE, noun

  1. Any state, condition, or circumstance, favorable to success, prosperity, interest, or reputation.
  2. Benefit; gain; profit.“What advantage will it be to thee?” Job 35:3
  3. Means to an end; opportunity; convenience for obtaining benefit; as, student enjoy great advantages for improvement.
  4. Favorable state or circumstances; as, jewels set to advantage
All definitions and other forms of “advantage”
  1. Superiority, or prevalence over; with of or over.“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, (or over us.)” 2 Corinthians 2:11
  2. Superiority, or that which gives it; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
  3. Interest; increase; overplus.
  4. Additional circumstance to give preponderation.

ADV'ANTAGE, verb transitive

  1. To benefit; as to yield profit or gain.“What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?” Luke 9:25
  2. To promote; to advance the interest of.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.