Advantage
יִתְרוֹןStrong’s H3504yitron (yit-ron)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yitron is the Hebrew word usually translated “profit”, “advantage” and “like advantage of”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?”
Meaning
- Advantage, profit, excellency
How it's translated
- profit 4
- advantage 1
- like advantage of 1
- profit of 1
- and profit of 1
- and advantage of 1
- and advantage 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 9
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
- Ecclesiastes 3:9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
- Ecclesiastes 5:9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
- Ecclesiastes 5:16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
- Ecclesiastes 7:12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Hebrew dictionary
יִתְרוֹן yitron · advantage
advantage, profit, excellency
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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
- Any state, condition, or circumstance, favorable to success, prosperity, interest, or reputation.
- Benefit; gain; profit.“What advantage will it be to thee?” Job 35:3
- Means to an end; opportunity; convenience for obtaining benefit; as, student enjoy great advantages for improvement.
- Favorable state or circumstances; as, jewels set to advantage
All definitions and other forms of “advantage”
- Superiority, or prevalence over; with of or over.“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, (or over us.)” 2 Corinthians 2:11
- Superiority, or that which gives it; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
- Interest; increase; overplus.
- Additional circumstance to give preponderation.
ADV'ANTAGE, verb transitive
- 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
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.