Strong's Greek · G5623
G5623 ōpheléō
ὠφελέω
advantage, better, prevail, profit
When ōpheléō is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.
Definition
to be useful, i.e. to benefit
Derivation
from the same as G5622 (ὠφέλεια);
Appears 15 times in Scripture
“Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.”
“When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.””
“She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.”
“The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.”
“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?”
“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?”
“But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’”
“What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?”
“Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!””
“But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God),”
When ōpheléō is spoken over you
Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what ōpheléō means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.
Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Romans 2:25 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.
Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).