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ὠφελέω

Strong’s: G5623

Associated OET lemmas: ὠφελέω

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἀνωφελής · ὄφελος · ὠφέλεια · ὠφέλιμος

Sense 1: to help

Semantic entry: 35.2

Semantic domains: Help, Care For

Subdomains: Help

Definition: to provide assistance, with emphasis upon the resulting benefit

MAT 15:5: RV MAT 15:5 · LV MAT 15:5 · Read together MAT 15:5

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OET-RV MAT 15:5

5 But if someone tells their father or mother that whatever help they may have expected from them is now given away as a gift, then you people say

OET-LV MAT 15:5

5 But you _all are _saying:
Whoever wishfully may _say to _the father or the mother:
Whatever if you _may _be _benefitted by me:
A_gift,

MRK 5:26: RV MRK 5:26 · LV MRK 5:26 · Read together MRK 5:26

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OET-RV MRK 5:26

26 and who’d endured much under various doctors despite spending everything she had. After all that, she’d ended up even worse,

OET-LV MRK 5:26

26 and having _suffered much under many doctors, and having _spent all the things by herself and having _been _benefitted nothing, but rather having _come to the worse,

All 12 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 15:5 · LV MAT 15:5 · Read together MAT 15:5

MRK: RV MRK 5:26 · RV MRK 7:11 · RV MRK 8:36 · LV MRK 5:26 · LV MRK 7:11 · LV MRK 8:36 · Read together MRK 5:26 · Read together MRK 7:11 · Read together MRK 8:36

LUK: RV LUK 9:25 · LV LUK 9:25 · Read together LUK 9:25

JHN: RV JHN 6:63 · LV JHN 6:63 · Read together JHN 6:63

ROM: RV ROM 2:25 · LV ROM 2:25 · Read together ROM 2:25

CO1: RV CO1 13:3 · RV CO1 14:6 · LV CO1 13:3 · LV CO1 14:6 · Read together CO1 13:3 · Read together CO1 14:6

GAL: RV GAL 5:2 · LV GAL 5:2 · Read together GAL 5:2

HEB: RV HEB 4:2 · RV HEB 13:9 · LV HEB 4:2 · LV HEB 13:9 · Read together HEB 4:2 · Read together HEB 13:9

Sense 2: to accomplish, to do

Semantic entry: 68.33

Semantic domains: Aspect

Subdomains: Complete, Finish, Succeed

Definition: to be successful in accomplishing some goal, with the implication that such might be useful

MAT 16:26: RV MAT 16:26 · LV MAT 16:26 · Read together MAT 16:26

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OET-RV MAT 16:26

26 What help would it be to a person if they gain everything in the world, and yet lose their soul? Or put another way, what could a person give in exchange for their soul?

OET-LV MAT 16:26

26 For/Because what ˓will˒_ a_person _be _being _benefitted, if he _may _gain the whole world, but the soul of _him may _be _lost?
Or what ˓will˒_ a_person _be _giving as_an_exchange for _the soul of _him?

MAT 27:24: RV MAT 27:24 · LV MAT 27:24 · Read together MAT 27:24

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OET-RV MAT 27:24

24 When Pilatos saw that it was going nowhere other than to turn into a riot, got a bowl of water and washed his hands up there in front of the crowd, announcing, “I’m innocent of the blood of this man who has done nothing wrong. It’s your responsibility now.”

OET-LV MAT 27:24

24 And the Pilatos having _seen that it _is _benefiting nothing, but rather is _becoming a_commotion, having _taken water, he _washed _off his hands in _front _of the crowd saying:
I _am innocent of the blood the this righteous one,.
you _all will _be _seeing to _it.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 16:26 · RV MAT 27:24 · LV MAT 16:26 · LV MAT 27:24 · Read together MAT 16:26 · Read together MAT 27:24

JHN: RV JHN 12:19 · LV JHN 12:19 · Read together JHN 12:19