Lexical Summary yaal: to confer or gain profit or benefit Original Word: יַעַלTransliteration: yaal Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-al') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to confer or gain profit or benefit Meaning: to confer or gain profit or benefit Strong's Concordance 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). Brown-Driver-Briggs H3276. yaal 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; 12:13; יוֺעִילוּךְ Isaiah 57:12; נוֺעִיל Job 21:15; Infinitive absolute הוֺעֵיל Jeremiah 23:22; construct הוֺעִיל 7:8 4t.; Participle מוֺעִיל 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, 57:12; Jeremiah 2:8 הלבו יועילו לא אחרי, 2:11 יועיל בלוא כבידו המיר, 16:19 מועיל בם ואין, 1 Samuel 12:21, of vain confidences Jeremiah 7:8, or promises 23:32 (twice in verse) (followed by לְ); of Egypt as ally Isaiah 30:5 (followed by לְ), 30:5; 30:6; of wickedness Proverbs 10:2; wealth 11:4; worthless men Job 30:13 (יועִילוּ לְהַוָּתִי i.e. promote it); of words 15:3 ("" יִסְכּוֺן לֹא דָּבָר); in General gain profit Isaiah 47:12; 48:17; Jeremiah 12:13; Job 21:15; 35:3. |
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