ōpheleō · help, benefit

What it means

ōpheleō (ὠφελέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “help, benefit”.

Help, be of use.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be of help: "what does it bring him?".

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• benefit ×3
• benefited ×2
• you would have gained ×2
• I gain ×1
• does it profit ×1
• had not been helped ×1
• he was gaining ×1
• use ×1
• value ×1
• will it profit ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×3
• Luke×1
• John×2
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×1
• Hebrews×2

• Matthew 15:5

  But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is an offering to God,”

• Matthew 16:26

  For what will it profit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life?

• Matthew 27:24

  When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this blood; you will see to it.”

• Mark 5:26

  and who had suffered much under many doctors, and had spent all that she had, and had not been helped at all, but rather had grown worse,

• Mark 7:11

  But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban” (that is, an offering)’—

• Mark 8:36

  For what does it profit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

• Luke 9:25

  For what is a person benefited if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

• John 6:63

  It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh is of no use. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

• John 12:19

  So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after him!”

• Romans 2:25

  For circumcision indeed is of value if you practice the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  And if I give away as food all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I will be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 14:6

  But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you either by revelation or by knowledge or by prophecy or by teaching?

• Galatians 5:2

  Look, I, Paul, say to you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, the Messiah will benefit you nothing.

• Hebrews 4:2

  For we too have had the good news announced to us, just as they did; but the word they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who heard it.

• Hebrews 13:9

  Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, by which those who walked in them were not benefited.