H3504 - יִתְרוֹן (yithrôwn)

H3504 יִתְרוֹן (yithrôwn) yith-rone'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

advantage

Strong's Definition

preeminence, gain

Derivation: from H3498 (יָתַר);

KJV Usage: better, excellency(-leth), profit(-able).

TWOT Reference: 936f

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) advantage, profit, excellency

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G4050

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

advantage, profit, excellency

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

יִתרוֹן yithrôn BDB Definition: 1) advantage, profit, excellency Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H3498 Same Word by TWOT Number: 936f Total KJV Occurrences: 10

Bible Occurrences (9)

1:3 2:11 2:13 3:9 5:9 5:16 7:12 10:10 10:11

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and [what] I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:13

And I saw that wisdom exceeds... folly, just as light exceeds... darkness:

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What does the worker gain from his toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:9

The produce of the earth is taken by all;... the king himself profits from the fields.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as... a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom -, like money, [is] a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.