# G5623 ὠφελέω

ὠφελέω (ōpheléō), Strong’s G5623: to be useful, i.e. to benefit KJV: advantage, better, prevail, profit. Occurs 40 times.

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*ōpheléō* — to be useful, i.e. to benefit

KJV: advantage, better, prevail, profit

Derived from [ὠφέλεια ōphéleia](https://besorah.bible/word/G5622) (usefulness, i.e. benefit)

Occurs 40 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 15:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/15?v=5) — But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a…
- [Matthew 27:24](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/27?v=24) — So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water and washed…
- [Mark 5:26](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/5?v=26) — and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew…
- [Mark 7:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/7?v=11) — But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,”’”…
- [Mark 8:36](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/8?v=36) — For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
- [Luke 9:25](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/9?v=25) — For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
- [John 6:63](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/6?v=63) — It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- [John 12:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/12?v=19) — The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”
- [Romans 2:25](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/2?v=25) — For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your…
- [1 Corinthians 13:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/13?v=3) — 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…