TBESH · H3276
יָעַל · ya.al · to gain
(Hiphil) to gain, profit, benefit, avail
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יָעַל (ya.al) means “to gain” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: yaw-al' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
יָעַל · ya.al · to gain
(Hiphil) to gain, profit, benefit, avail
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a primitive root; properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited)
KJV glosses: [idiom] at all, set forward, can do good, (be, have) profit, (able).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| are worthless | 2 |
| avail | 2 |
| benefit | 2 |
| idols | 2 |
| profit you | 2 |
| at all | 1 |
| benefit at all | 1 |
| benefit do i gain | 1 |
| profit | 1 |
| profit to them | 1 |
| purpose | 1 |
| succeed | 1 |
| they profit | 1 |
| use | 1 |
| useless | 1 |
| which profits him | 1 |
| would we gain | 1 |
| you for your benefit | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| shall not profit | 3 |
| profit | 2 |
| at all | 1 |
| could not profit | 1 |
| do not profit | 1 |
| doth not profit | 1 |
| for they shall not profit | 1 |
| him and what profit | 1 |
| is profitable | 1 |
| no profit | 1 |
| nor profit | 1 |
| that cannot profit | 1 |
| thee to profit | 1 |
| them therefore they shall not profit | 1 |
| they set forward | 1 |
| to profit | 1 |
| what profit | 1 |
| what profiteth | 1 |
| wherewith he can do no good | 1 |
| which cannot profit | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 21 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
Read word by wordShould he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
Read word by wordWho is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
Read word by wordThey tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
Read word by wordFor you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Read word by wordIll-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Read word by wordRiches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Read word by wordeveryone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”
Read word by wordThis is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
Read word by wordAll makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.
Read word by wordWho fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
Read word by wordSo take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
Read word by wordThus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
Read word by wordI will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
Read word by wordThe priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
Read word by wordHas a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
Read word by wordBut look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
Read word by wordThey have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
Read word by wordO LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
Read word by word“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordWhat use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
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