יַעַל
yaʻal · yaw-al'
properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited)
- properly, to ascend
- figuratively, to be valuable (objectively
- useful, subjectively
- benefited)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] at all, set forward, can do good, (be, have) profit, (able).
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › to see and know › authority, the one who leads
The hand that works that works to see and know of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יַעַל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
23 occurrences · 23 OT · 0 NT · 21 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- profit2 · 9%
- things, which cannot profit1 · 4%
- wherewith he can do no good1 · 4%
- him? and what profit1 · 4%
- they set forward1 · 4%
- will it be unto thee? and, what profit1 · 4%
- that could not profit1 · 4%
- nor profit1 · 4%
- that shall not profit1 · 4%
- shall not profit1 · 4%
- that is profitable1 · 4%
- to profit1 · 4%
- thee to profit1 · 4%
- for they shall not profit1 · 4%
- things that do not profit1 · 4%
- for that which doth not profit1 · 4%
- that cannot profit1 · 4%
- but shall not profit1 · 4%
- and things wherein there is no profit1 · 4%
- them: therefore they shall not profit1 · 4%
- at all1 · 4%
- what profiteth1 · 4%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.