Advantage
מוֹתָרStrong’s H4195motar (mo-tar)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Motar is the Hebrew word usually translated “profit”, “advantage” and “advantage of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.”
Meaning
- Pre-eminence, abundance, profit, superiorityabundance, plenty · pre-eminence, superiority
How it's translated
- profit 1
- to advantage 1
- and advantage of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Ecclesiastes 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 21:5The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹתָר motar · advantage
1) pre-eminence, abundance, profit, superiority 1a) abundance, plenty 1b) pre-eminence, superiority
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.