יַעַלyaʻal/yaw-al'/
HebrewH327623 occurrences (KJV)
properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited)
KJV renders it: [idiom] at all, set forward, can do good, (be, have) profit, (able).
Where it appears(showing the first 21 of 23)
- 1 Sam 12:21Don’t turn aside to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
- Job 15:3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
- Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
- Job 30:13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone’s help.
- Job 35:3That you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’
- Prov 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
- Prov 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
- Isa 30:5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
- Isa 30:6The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
- Isa 44:9Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
- Isa 44:10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
- Isa 47:12“Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; as if you might profit; as if you might prevail.
- Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
- Isa 57:12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
- Jer 2:8The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and followed things that do not profit.
- Jer 2:11Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
- Jer 7:8Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.
- Jer 12:13They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing. You shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.”
- Jer 16:19Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
- Jer 23:32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them, nor command them; neither do they profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
- Hab 2:18“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.