ὄφελος

From Proto-Hellenic *opʰelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰel- (whence also ὀφείλω (opheílō)). Cognates include Old Armenian աւելի (aweli, “more”), յաւելում (yawelum, “I add”).

ὄφελος • (óphelos) n (genitive ὀφέλους); third declension

1. furtherance, advantage, help, good, benefit
2. the best
3. (governs the dative) help against something

• ὠφελέω (ōpheléō)

• ὀφείλω (opheílō)

• Greek: όφελος (ófelos)

• “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