STRONGS NUMBER G3685


Word Summary
oninēmi: to profit, help
Original Word: ὀνίνημι
Transliteration: oninēmi
Phonetic Spelling: (on-in'-ay-mee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to profit, help
Meaning: to profit, help
Strong's Concordance
have joy.

A prolonged form of an apparently primary verb (onomai, to slur); for which another prolonged form (onao) is used as an alternate in some tenses (unless indeed it be identical with the base of onoma through the idea of notoriety); to gratify, i.e. (middle voice) to derive pleasure or advantage from -- have joy.

see GREEK onoma

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3685: ὀνίνημι

ὀνίνημι: from Homer down; to be useful, to profit, help (Latinjuvo); middle, present ὀνίναμαι; 2 aorist ὠνήμην (and later ὠνάμην, see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 12f; Kühner, § 343 under the word, i., p. 880; (Veitch, under the word)), optative ὀναίμην; to receive profit or advantage, be helped (or have joy (Latinjuvor)): τίνος, of one, Philemon 1:20 (see Lightfoot at the passage). (Elsewhere in the Scriptures only in Sir. 30:2.)