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  "type": "word",
  "id": "G5623",
  "lemma": "ὠφελέω",
  "transliteration": "ōpheléō",
  "definition": "to be useful, i.e. to benefit",
  "kjv": "advantage, better, prevail, profit",
  "occurrences": 40,
  "language": "Greek",
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    {
      "id": "G5622",
      "lemma": "ὠφέλεια",
      "transliteration": "ōphéleia",
      "meaning": "usefulness, i.e. benefit",
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    }
  ],
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  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 15:5",
      "text": "But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/15?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 27:24",
      "text": "So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water and washed…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/27?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 5:26",
      "text": "and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/5?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 7:11",
      "text": "But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,”’”…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/7?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 8:36",
      "text": "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/8?v=36"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 9:25",
      "text": "For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/9?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "John 6:63",
      "text": "It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/6?v=63"
    },
    {
      "reference": "John 12:19",
      "text": "The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/12?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Romans 2:25",
      "text": "For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/2?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Corinthians 13:3",
      "text": "If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/13?v=3"
    }
  ],
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