Lexicon oninémi: to profit, help Original Word: ὀνίνημιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: oninémi Phonetic Spelling: (on-in'-ay-mee) Short Definition: I help, profit, have joy of Definition: I profit, benefit, help; mid: I have profit, derive benefit. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. verb Definitionto profit, help NASB Translationbenefit (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3685: ὀνίνημιὀνίνημι: from Homer down; to be useful, to profit, help (Latin juvo); middle, present ὀνίναμαι; 2 aorist ὠνήμην (and later ὠνάμην, see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 12f; Kühner, § 343 under the word, i., p. 880; ( Veitch, under the word)), optative ὀναίμην; to receive profit or advantage, be helped (or have joy (Latin juvor)): τίνος, of one, Philemon 1:20 (see Lightfoot at the passage). (Elsewhere in the Scriptures only in Sir. 30:2.)
Strong's have joy. A prolonged form of an apparently primary verb (onomai, to slur); for which another prolonged form (onao) is used as an alternate in some tenses (unless indeed it be identical with the base of onoma through the idea of notoriety); to gratify, i.e. (middle voice) to derive pleasure or advantage from -- have joy. see GREEK onoma |
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