ὄφελος

See also: όφελος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *opʰelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰel- (whence also ὀφείλω (opheílō)). Cognates include Old Armenian աւելի (aweli, “more”), յաւելում (yawelum, “I add”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.pʰe.los/ → /ˈo.ɸe.los/ → /ˈo.fe.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.pʰe.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pʰe.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ɸe.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.fe.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.fe.los/

Noun

ὄφελος • (óphelos) n (genitive ὀφέλους); third declension

1. furtherance, advantage, help, good, benefit
2. the best
3. (governs the dative) help against something

Declension

Third declension of τὸ ὄφελος; τοῦ ὀφέλους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὄφελος tò óphelos	τὼ ὀφέλει tṑ ophélei	τᾰ̀ ὀφέλη tằ ophélē
Genitive	τοῦ ὀφέλους toû ophélous	τοῖν ὀφελοῖν toîn opheloîn	τῶν ὀφελῶν tôn ophelôn
Dative	τῷ ὀφέλει tōî ophélei	τοῖν ὀφελοῖν toîn opheloîn	τοῖς ὀφέλεσῐ / ὀφέλεσῐν toîs ophélesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ὄφελος tò óphelos	τὼ ὀφέλει tṑ ophélei	τᾰ̀ ὀφέλη tằ ophélē
Vocative	ὄφελος óphelos	ὀφέλει ophélei	ὀφέλη ophélē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὠφελέω (ōpheléō)

Related terms

• ὀφείλω (opheílō)

Descendants

• Greek: όφελος (ófelos)

Further reading

• “ὄφελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄφελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄφελος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄφελος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὄφελος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3786 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • advantage idem, page 14.
  • benefit idem, page 74.
  • boon idem, page 89.
  • expediency idem, page 293.
  • gain idem, page 352.
  • good idem, page 366.
  • helpfulness idem, page 396.
  • interest idem, page 450.
  • profit idem, page 653.
  • use idem, page 940.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN