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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *opʰelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰel- (whence also ὀφείλω (opheílō)). Cognates include Old Armenian աւելի (aweli, “more”), յաւելում (yawelum, “I add”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ó.pʰe.los/ → /ˈo.ɸe.los/ → /ˈo.fe.los/
Noun
ὄφελος • (óphelos) n (genitive ὀφέλους); third declension
- furtherance, advantage, help, good, benefit
- the best
- (governs the dative) help against something
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Further reading
- “ὄφελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄφελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄφελος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄφελος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ὄφελος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3786 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- advantage idem, page 14.
- benefit idem, page 74.
- boon idem, page 89.
- expediency idem, page 293.
- gain idem, page 352.
- good idem, page 366.
- helpfulness idem, page 396.
- interest idem, page 450.
- profit idem, page 653.
- use idem, page 940.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN