Strong's Concordance
Original word: ὄφελος
Transliteration: ophelos
Definition (short): use
Definition (full): advantage, help
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: from ophelló (to increase)
Definition: advantage, help
NASB Translation: profit (1), use (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
From ophello (to heap up, i.e. Accumulate or benefit); gain -- advantageth, profit.
References
KJV:
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
NASB:
If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, LET US EAT AND DRINK, FOR TOMORROW WE DIE.
KJV:
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
NASB:
What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?
KJV:
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
NASB:
and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?