Yaʻal — H3276

Definition

verb

properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited)

1. (Hiphil) to gain, profit, benefit, avail

Usually translated as

profit, set forward, can do good, at all

Origin

a primitive root

Occurrences

Yaʻal occurs 23 times in 21 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (1), Job (4), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (7), Jeremiah (6), Habakkuk (1)

• 1 Samuel 12:21 — And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit (יוֹעִ֛ילוּ) nor deliver; for they are vain.
• Job 15:3 — Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good (יוֹעִ֥יל)?
• Job 21:15 — What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit (נּ֝וֹעִ֗יל) should we have, if we pray unto him?
• Job 30:13 — They mar my path, they set forward (יֹעִ֑ילוּ) my calamity, they have no helper.
• Job 35:3 — For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit (אֹ֝עִ֗יל) shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
• Proverbs 10:2 — Treasures of wickedness profit (י֭וֹעִילוּ) nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
• Proverbs 11:4 — Riches profit (יוֹעִ֣יל) not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
• Isaiah 30:5 — They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit (יוֹעִ֣ילוּ) them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
• Isaiah 30:5 — They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit (לְהוֹעִ֔יל), but a shame, and also a reproach.
• 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 will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit (יוֹעִֽילוּ) them.
• Isaiah 44:9 — They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit (יוֹעִ֑ילוּ); and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
• Isaiah 44:10 — Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable (הוֹעִֽיל) for nothing?
• 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 (הוֹעִ֖יל), if so be thou mayest prevail.
• 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 (לְהוֹעִ֔יל), which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
• Isaiah 57:12 — I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit (יוֹעִילֽוּךְ) thee.
• 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 Baal, and walked after things that do not profit (יוֹעִ֖לוּ).
• 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 (יוֹעִֽיל).
• Jeremiah 7:8 — Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit (הוֹעִֽיל).
• Jeremiah 12:13 — They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit (יוֹעִ֑לוּ): and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
• 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, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit (מוֹעִֽיל).
• 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 sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all (יוֹעִ֥ילוּ), saith the LORD.
• 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 sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all (וְהוֹעֵ֛יל), saith the LORD.
• Habakkuk 2:18 — What profiteth (הוֹעִ֣יל) 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 make dumb idols?