Strong's #3276: ya`al (pronounced yaw-al')

a primitive root; properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively: useful, subjectively: benefited):--X at all, set forward, can do good, (be, have) profit, (able).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ya‛al

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 23 times:

 

1 Samuel 12:21: "then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for"
Job 15:3: "with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?"
Job 21:15: "that we should serve him? and what profit we pray"
Job 30:13: "They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper."
Job 35:3: "What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit"
Proverbs 10:2: "Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth"
Proverbs 11:4: "Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness from death."
Isaiah 30:5: "of a people that could not profit be a help nor profit,"
Isaiah 30:5: "be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach."
Isaiah 30:6: "of camels, to a people that shall not profit"
Isaiah 44:9: "of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not,"
Isaiah 44:10: "a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable"
Isaiah 47:12: "from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail."
Isaiah 48:17: "am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go."
Isaiah 57:12: "thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit"
Jeremiah 2:8: "and walked after things that do not profit."
Jeremiah 2:11: "have changed their glory for that which doth not profit."
Jeremiah 7:8: "lying words, profit."
Jeremiah 12:13: "thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce"
Jeremiah 16:19: "have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit."
Jeremiah 23:32: "nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith"
Jeremiah 23:32: "nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, profit this people at all, saith"
Habakkuk 2:18: "What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven and a teacher"