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# יִתְרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3504

**advantage** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

advantage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3504/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִתְרוֹן: advantage, profit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3504/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] advantage, profit, only Ec;—abs. Ec 1:3 + 4 times; cstr. Ec 2:13 + 4 times;—advantage to (ל) any one, מַה־יִתְרוֹן לָאָדָם Ec 1:3, i.e. what advantage hath a man? 5:15; 10:11; sq. מִן compar. = advantage beyond, more than 2:13(×2); cstr. יִתְדוֹן הָעוֹשֶׂה 3:9 advantage of (for) him that worketh; יִתְרוֹן אֶרֶץ 5:8; יִתְרוֹן דַּעַת 7:12 advantage of knowledge; וְיִתְרוֹן הַכְשֵׁיר חָכְמָה Ec 10:10 an advantage for giving success is wisdom; abs. אֵין יִתְרוֹן תַּחַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ Ec 2:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: advantage (6); \[is\] the advantage (1); an advantage (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.9/#tree)

מַה־יִּתְרוֹן֙ הָֽעוֹשֶׂ֔ה בַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר ה֥וּא עָמֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* what? \[is\].the.advantage of the.\[one.who\].works in.\[that\] which he \[was\].toiling

*JPS 1917:* What profit hath he that worketh in that he laboureth?

[Ecclesiastes 5:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.8/#tree)

וְיִתְר֥וֹן אֶ֖רֶץ בַּכֹּ֣ל ה֑וּא מֶ֥לֶךְ לְשָׂדֶ֖ה נֶעֱבָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] profit of.a.land \[is\].in (the) everything it a.king to a.field he.has.been.served

*JPS 1917:* But the profit of a land every way is a king that maketh himself servant to the field.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3504/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).