yaal · profit, be useful

What it means

yaal (יָעַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “profit, be useful”.

To profit, to be of use, to serve for something.

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 serve a purpose, to be of use; idols are of no use.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• profit ×18
• use ×2
• all ×1
• do I gain ×1
• they further ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×4
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×7
• Habakkuk×1

• 1 Samuel 12:21

  And do not turn aside, for that would be going after emptiness that does not profit or deliver, for they are emptiness.

• Job 15:3

  Arguing with a word that does not profit, and with words that are of no use?

• Job 21:15

  What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? And of what use is it to us that we entreat him?’

• Job 30:13

  They break up my path; they further my calamity, with no one helping them.

• Job 35:3

  For you say, ‘What does it profit you? What do I gain more than my sin?’

• Proverbs 10:2

  Treasures of wickedness do not profit, but righteousness rescues from death.

• Proverbs 11:4

  Wealth does not profit in the day of fury, but righteousness delivers from death.

• Isaiah 30:5

  Everyone has been put to shame because of a people that does not profit them, not for help and not for profit, but for shame and also for reproach.

• Isaiah 30:6

  The burden of the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, where the lioness and the lion are among them, the viper and the flying fiery serpent, they carry on the backs of young donkeys their riches, and on the humps of camels their treasures, to a people that does not profit.

• Isaiah 44:9

  Those who form carved images, all of them are emptiness, and their desired things do not profit; and their witnesses, they do not see and do not know, so that they will be put to shame.

• Isaiah 44:10

  Who has formed a god and cast a carved image that is of no profit?

• Isaiah 47:12

  Stand now with your spells and with the great number of your sorceries, in which you have worn yourself out from your youth; perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you will cause terror.

• Isaiah 48:17

  Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am YHWH your Elohim, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way that you should go.

• Isaiah 57:12

  I will declare your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

• Jeremiah 2:8

  The priests did not say, ‘Where is YHWH?’ And those who handle the instruction did not know me, and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after what does not profit.

• Jeremiah 2:11

  Has a nation changed gods, even though they are not gods? But my people has changed its glory for what does not profit.

• Jeremiah 7:8

  Look, you are trusting in words of falsehood that do not profit.

• Jeremiah 12:13

  They have sown wheat and thorns they have reaped; they have worn themselves out; it does not profit them. And be ashamed of your harvests because of the burning anger of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 16:19

  YHWH, my strength and my stronghold and my place to flee in the day of distress, to you nations will come from the ends of the earth and say: “Surely our fathers inherited falsehood, vapor, and there is no profit in them.”

• Jeremiah 23:32

  Look, I am against those who prophesy dreams of falsehood, declares YHWH, and tell them and lead astray my people by their falsehoods and by their recklessness; and I did not send them and did not command them, and they do not profit this people at all, declares YHWH.

• Habakkuk 2:18

  What does a carved image profit when its maker has carved it, a cast image and a teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols?

And 2 more times.