Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to gain
Usage: (Hiphil) to gain, profit, benefit, avail
Yaal means “set forward” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H3276 יַעַל (ya`al) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ya`al (yaw-al') v. 1. (properly) to ascend 2. (figuratively) to be valuable (objectively It has 21 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include all, can, set, and do. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ya`al (yaw-al') v. 1. (properly) to ascend 2. (figuratively) to be valuable (objectively [a primitive root] KJV: X at all, set forward, can do good, (be, have) profit, (able).
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to gain
Usage: (Hiphil) to gain, profit, benefit, avail
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ya`al, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3276.
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3276, grouped by book.
Yaal (Strong's H3276) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "set forward". ya`al (yaw-al') v. 1. (properly) to ascend 2. (figuratively) to be valuable (objectively
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H3276 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3276 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as all, can, set, and do. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.