ὠφελέω

ὠφελέω — ōpheléō

ὠφελέω, ὠφέλω; future ὠφελήσω; 1 aorist ὠφέλησα; passive, present ὠφελοῦμαι; 1 aorist ὠφελήθην; 1 future ὠφεληθήσομαι (Mat 16:26 L T Tr WH); (ὄφελος); from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; the Sept. for הועִיל; to assist, to be useful or advantageous, to profit: absolutely, Rom 2:25; with the accusative οὐδέν, to be of no use, to effect nothing, Mat 27:24; Joh 6:63; Joh 12:19 (in these examples (Joh 6:63 excepted) A. V. prevail); τινα, to help or profit one, Heb 4:2; τινα τί to help, profit, one in a thing ((but the second accusative is a cognate accusative or the accusative of a neuter adjective or pronoun; cf. Winers Grammar, 227 (213)) so from Herodotus 3, 126 down): οὐδέν τινα, 1Co 14:6; Gal 5:2; τί ὠφελήσει (or ὠφελεῖ (τόν)) ἄνθρωπον, ἐάν κτλ.; ((T WH follow with an infinitive)), what will (or 'doth') it profit a man if etc. ((or 'to' etc.))? Mar 8:36; passive, ὠφελοῦμαι, to be helped or profited: Heb 13:9; with the accusative μηδέν, Mar 5:26; οὐδέν, 1Co 13:3; with the accusative of the interrogative τί, Mat 16:26; Luk 9:25 (here WH marginal reading gives the active); τί ἐκ τίνος (genitive of person), to be profited by one m some particular (cf. Meyer on Matt. as below; ἐκ, II. 5), Mat 15:5; Mar 7:11.