advantage
yo.ter denotes an advantage considered in questions about what someone has beyond another.
The attested use presents advantage as something questioned or affirmed in relation to a person's circumstances: the APB asks what advantage wisdom has over folly and what advantage a person has, while also calling wisdom an advantage.
Senses in use
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Advantage in comparison or evaluation · dominant
In Ecclesiastes 6:8, the singular absolute noun occurs in a question contrasting the wise person with the fool; the APB renders the question, "For what advantage has the wise man over the fool." Ecclesiastes 2:15 and Ecclesiastes 6:11 likewise frame advantage as a question, while Ecclesiastes 7:11 presents it positively in the clause the APB renders "and an advantage to those who see the sun."
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses "advantage" in Ecclesiastes 2:15, Ecclesiastes 6:11, Ecclesiastes 6:8, and Ecclesiastes 7:11. In the remaining occurrences it renders the surrounding clauses with "furthermore," "overly," or "more than me"; The term's specific contribution there cannot be isolated with confidence.