יִתְרוֹן
profit
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 5 times (50%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 5 times (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3504 appears — 9 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ecclesiastes 9 verses
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 יִּתְר֖וֹן n c ms What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 יִתְר֖וֹן n c ms Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:13 יִתְר֛וֹן כִּֽ/יתְר֥וֹן n c ms prep + n c ms cs Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
- Ecclesiastes 3:9 יִּתְרוֹן֙ n c ms cs What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
- Ecclesiastes 5:9 וְ/יִתְר֥וֹן conj + n c ms cs Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
- Ecclesiastes 5:16 יִּתְר֣וֹן n c ms This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 וְ/יִתְר֣וֹן conj + n c ms cs For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
- Ecclesiastes 10:10 וְ/יִתְר֥וֹן conj + n c ms cs If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
- Ecclesiastes 10:11 יִתְר֔וֹן n c ms If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“profit” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun יתרון (yithrôwn). More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Ecclesiastes. It appears 9 verses across 1 book of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in Ecclesiastes 1:3. It shares a root with יתר, יותר and יתור. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3504 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ecclesiastes 9 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Profit 3×, Excelleth 2×
- American Standard Version: Profit 3×, Excelleth 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Exceeds 2×, Gain 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Profit 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3504 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3504 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3504 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3504 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- advantage, profit, excellency
Word origin
n.[m.] advantage, profit, only Ec;—abs. Ec 1:3 + 4 times; cstr. Ec 2:13 + 4 times;—advantage to (ל) any one, מַה־יִתְרוֹן לָאָדָם Ec 1:3, i.e. what advantage hath a man? 5:15; 10:11; sq. מִן compar. = advantage beyond, more than 2:13(×2); cstr. יִתְדוֹן הָעוֹשֶׂה 3:9 advantage of (for) him that worketh; יִתְרוֹן אֶרֶץ 5:8; יִתְרוֹן דַּעַת 7:12 advantage of knowledge; וְיִתְרוֹן הַכְשֵׁיר חָכְמָה Ec 10:10 an advantage for giving success is wisdom; abs. אֵין יִתְרוֹן תַּחַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ Ec 2:11.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יתר (yâthar) (H3498) — to remain.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יִתְרוֹן
- 1. surplus, difference. Koh. R. to II, 13 כשם שיש י׳ בין וכ׳ as there is a difference between light &c.
- 2. addition. Lev. R. s. 22 (ref. to Koh. V, 8) אפי׳ דברים … י׳ למ"ת even what thou deemest to be an addition to the original Law (Koh. R. to V, 8, a. e. מיותרין). e.g. Ecclesiastes 5:8
- 3. superfluity, useless thing. Ib. אפי׳ … י׳ בעולם even what thou mightest deem to be mere useless creatures (Koh. R. to V, 8, a. e. מיותרין), v. יָתַר.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H3504 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/יִתְר֥וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ecclesiastes 5:9 | 2 |
| וְ/יִתְר֣וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ecclesiastes 7:12 | 1 |
| יִתְר֔וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 10:11 | 1 |
| יִתְר֖וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 2:11 | 1 |
| יִתְר֛וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 2:13 | 1 |
| יִּתְר֖וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 1:3 | 1 |
| יִּתְר֣וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 5:16 | 1 |
| יִּתְרוֹן֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ecclesiastes 3:9 | 1 |
| כִּֽ/יתְר֥וֹן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ecclesiastes 2:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3504, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- יותר yôwthêr H3148 advantage
- יתור yâthûwr H3491 to remain
- יתר yether H3499 remainder
- יתרת yôthereth H3508 appendage
- מותר môwthâr H4195 abundance
- מיתר mêythâr H4340 cord
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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