opheleo denotes bringing benefit or advantage, often weighed against an action or outcome that proves useless.

The attested use concerns benefit, advantage, or useful effect: it asks whether speech benefits hearers, whether religious practices or teachings yield good, and whether apparent gain proves worthless when set against loss.

1. To bring benefit or useful advantage · dominant

   The term measures whether something produces a beneficial result: in 1 Corinthians 14:6 the future active form asks what benefit speech in tongues would bring unless it conveyed revelation, knowledge, prophecy, or teaching. In Hebrews 4:2 the message heard did not profit its hearers, while Mark 8:36 and Matthew 16:26 ask what advantage gaining the world gives when a person forfeits life or soul. Matthew 15:5 places the passive form in a statement about a gift that might help a father or mother, and Mark 5:26 describes a woman who, despite medical treatment and expense, did not improve.

   1 Corinthians 14:6Hebrews 4:2Mark 8:36Matthew 16:26Matthew 15:5Mark 5:26

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the surrounding clauses with "benefit," "profit," "help," and "improving," as in 1 Corinthians 14:6, Hebrews 4:2, Matthew 15:5, and Mark 5:26. These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.