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יִתְרוֹן yitron
Hebrew word for “advantage” · Strong’s H3504 · used 10 times in 9 verses
Meaning
advantage, profit, excellency
How it is translated
Glosses given for yitron in context, with how often each is used:
- profit 6
- advantage 3
- like the advantage 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecclesiastes | 10 | 3.3 |
Chapters where it is used most
Ecclesiastes 2 (2), Ecclesiastes 5 (2), Ecclesiastes 10 (2), Ecclesiastes 1 (1), Ecclesiastes 3 (1), Ecclesiastes 7 (1)
Forms
- יתרון 6
- ויתרון 3
- כיתרון 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with yitron more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- עָמַל amal “to toil” 3
- חׇכְמָה chokhmah “wisdom” 3
- עָמָל amal “trouble” 2
- בַּעַל baal “master” 2
- מָה mah “what?” 3
- שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh “sun” 2
- רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 2
- תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 2
- אַיִן ayin “nothing” 2
- אֲנִי ani “I” 2
- אִם im “if” 2
Key verses
The verses using yitron that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 — What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 — Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and…
- Ecclesiastes 2:13 — Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
- Ecclesiastes 3:9 — What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
- Ecclesiastes 5:9 — Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
- Ecclesiastes 5:16 — And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 — For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
- Ecclesiastes 10:10 — If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
- Ecclesiastes 10:11 — Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
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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.