STRONGS NUMBER G5622


Word Summary
ōpheleia: assistance, profit, benefit
Original Word: ὠφέλεια
Transliteration: ōpheleia
Phonetic Spelling: (o-fel'-i-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: assistance, profit, benefit
Meaning: assistance, profit, benefit
Strong's Concordance
advantage, profit.

From a derivative of the base of ophelimos; usefulness, i.e. Benefit -- advantage, profit.

see GREEK ophelimos

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5622: ὠφέλεια

ὠφέλεια (WH ὠφελία (cf. Iota)), ὠφελείας, , (ὠφελης), from (Sophocles and) Herodotus down, usefulness, advantage, profit: Romans 3:1; τῆς ὠφελείας χάριν (Polybius 3, 82, 8 (yet in the sense of 'booty')), Jude 1:16. (Job 22:3; Psalm 29:10 ())