Lexicon yaal: to confer or gain profit or benefit Original Word: יָעַלPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: yaal Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-al') Short Definition: profit NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto confer or gain profit or benefit NASB Translationavail (1), furnish the slightest (1), gain (1), profit (17), profitable (1), slightest benefit (1), things of profit (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. [ יָעַל] verb only Hiph`il profit, avail, benefit; — Hiph`il Perfect הוֺעִיל Habakkuk 2:18; Imperfect יוֺעִיל Jeremiah 2:11 2t.; אֹעִיל Job 35:3; יוֺעִילוּ 1 Samuel 12:21 6t.; יוֺעִ֫לוּ Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 12:13; יוֺעִילוּךְ Isaiah 57:12; נוֺעִיל Job 21:15; Infinitive absolute הוֺעֵיל Jeremiah 23:22; construct הוֺעִיל Jeremiah 7:8 4t.; Participle מוֺעִיל Jeremiah 16:19; — profit, avail, benefit, always (except Job 30:13 where in bad sense, Isaiah 47:12) with negative, or in question implying negative; especially of idols or false gods (as unprofitable), so Habakkuk 2:18; Isaiah 44:9,10; Isaiah 57:12; Jeremiah 2:8 אחרי לא יועילו הלבו, Jeremiah 2:11 המיר כבידו בלוא יועיל, Jeremiah 16:19 ואין בם מועיל, 1 Samuel 12:21, of vain confidences Jeremiah 7:8, or promises Jeremiah 23:32 (twice in verse) (followed by לְ); of Egypt as ally Isaiah 30:5 (followed by לְ), Isaiah 30:5; Isaiah 30:6; of wickedness Proverbs 10:2; wealth Proverbs 11:4; worthless men Job 30:13 (לְהַוָּתִי יועִילוּ i.e. promote it); of words Job 15:3 ("" דָּבָר לֹא יִסְכּוֺן); in General gain profit Isaiah 47:12; Isaiah 48:17; Jeremiah 12:13; Job 21:15; Job 35:3.
Strong's set forward, can do good, be, have profit, able A primitive root; properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively: useful, subjectively: benefited) -- X at all, set forward, can do good, (be, have) profit, (able). |
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