UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Constructions: λυσιτελέω; λύω; τελέω

Sense 1: to be advantageous, to be better off, to be to someone’s advantage

Semantic entry: 65.44

Semantic domains: Value

Subdomains: Advantageous, Not Advantageous

Definition: to be of an advantage to someone

Notes: In a number of languages the idea of ‘advantage’ implies some comparison, either a benefit which is greater than someone else has or a benefit which makes one’s later state better off than the previous state. For example, in the case of OET JHN 11:50 one may translate ‘don’t you realize that if one man dies for the people, then you are much better off.’

Forms: λυσιτελεῖ

Show passage in OET: LUK 17:2

OET-RV LUK 17:2

2 It would be better if that person had a heavy weight tied to them and got thrown into the sea than if they cause a younger one to stumble.

OET-LV LUK 17:2

2 It _is _improving for _him if a_ milling _stone is _hung _around around the neck of _him, and he _has _been _thrown _down into the sea, than that he _may _stumble of_ the one these _little ones.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

λυσιτελέω

Form 1

Sense 1: to be advantageous, to be better off, to be to someone’s advantage