Definition

helpful or serviceable, i.e. advantageous

Etymology

from a form of G3786 (ὄφελος);

Word family

• ὄφελος óphelos

How the KJV renders it

• profit(-able)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.