יָעַל yaal
Hebrew word for “to gain” · Strong’s H3276 · used 23 times in 21 verses
Meaning
(Hiphil) to gain, profit, benefit, avail
How it is translated
Glosses given for yaal in context, with how often each is used:
- profit 4
- confer profit 3
- will benefit 2
- benefit 2
- profits 2
- will confer profit 2
- anyone profits 1
- will we gain 1
- will i profit 1
- profited 1
- have profited 1
- thing that profits 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Isaiah 30 (2), Isaiah 44 (2), Jeremiah 2 (2), 1 Samuel 12 (1), Job 15 (1), Job 21 (1), Job 30 (1), Job 35 (1), Proverbs 10 (1), Proverbs 11 (1)
Forms
- יועילו 6
- הועיל 4
- יועיל 3
- להועיל 2
- יועלו 2
- נועיל 1
- יעילו 1
- אעיל 1
- יועילוך 1
- מועיל 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with yaal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שֶׁקֶר sheqer “deception” 4
- פֶּסֶל pesel “idol” 3
- יָצַר yatsar “to form” 3
- בּוֹשׁ bush “be ashamed” 3
- הֶם hem “them” 5
- סָכַן sakhan “be useful” 2
- צְדָקָה tsedaqah “righteousness” 3
- נָצַל natsal “to rescue” 3
- תֹּהוּ tohu “formlessness” 2
- אוֹצָר otsar “treasure” 2
- צָרָה tsarah “distress” 2
- הֵמָּה hemmah “they(masc.)” 3
Key verses
The verses using yaal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 1 Samuel 12:21 — And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
- Proverbs 11:4 — Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- Isaiah 30:6 — The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they…
- Isaiah 44:9 — They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know;…
- Isaiah 47:12 — Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit,…
- Isaiah 48:17 — Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou…
- Jeremiah 2:8 — The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by…
- Jeremiah 2:11 — Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
- Jeremiah 7:8 — Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
- Jeremiah 16:19 — O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say,…
- Jeremiah 23:32 — Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I…
- Habakkuk 2:18 — What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.