συμφέρω
sumpherō
be profitable
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word σὐμφέρω (sumpherō) means "be profitable." This concept relates to commerce and wealth, suggesting that something has a positive impact on one's financial well-being. Sumpherō is used 17 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in the original text. Its range of usage spans multiple contexts, implying that being profitable encompasses various forms of financial or material gain. The importance of sumpherō lies in its connection to economic transactions, financial security, and potentially, financial growth.
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Occurrences in Scripture
17 total occurrences across the text
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 5:30If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 18:6but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.
Matthew 19:10His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
John 18:14Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
John 11:50nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
John 16:7Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
Acts 19:19Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Acts 20:20how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
1 Corinthians 6:12“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
1 Corinthians 7:35This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
1 Corinthians 10:23“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
1 Corinthians 10:33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 12:7But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
2 Corinthians 8:10I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
2 Corinthians 12:1It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Hebrews 12:10For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.