Lexical Summary oninēmi: to profit, help Original Word: ὀνίνημιTransliteration: oninēmi Phonetic Spelling: (on-in'-ay-mee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to profit, help Meaning: to profit, help Strong's Concordance have joy. A prolonged form of an apparently primary verb (onomai, to slur); for which another prolonged form (onao) is used as an alternate in some tenses (unless indeed it be identical with the base of onoma through the idea of notoriety); to gratify, i.e. (middle voice) to derive pleasure or advantage from -- have joy. see GREEK onoma Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3685: ὀνίνημιὀνίνημι: from Homer down; to be useful, to profit, help (Latinjuvo); middle, present ὀνίναμαι; 2 aorist ὠνήμην (and later ὠνάμην, see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 12f; Kühner, § 343 under the word, i., p. 880; (Veitch, under the word)), optative ὀναίμην; to receive profit or advantage, be helped (or have joy (Latinjuvor)): τίνος, of one, Philemon 1:20 (see Lightfoot at the passage). (Elsewhere in the Scriptures only in Sir. 30:2.) |
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