ὀνίνημι
oninēmi
Modern Summary of Abbott-Smith’s Lexicon (1922)
The word "ὀνίνημι" means to profit, benefit, or help. In its middle form, it refers to receiving profit or deriving benefit. It is used with a sense of gaining advantage or being helped, as seen in the example from Philemon 20.
for which another prolonged form () is used as an alternate in some tenses (unless indeed it be identical with the base of G3686 (ὄνομα) through the idea of notoriety); to gratify, i.e. (middle voice) to derive pleasure or advantage from
The Greek word oninēmi means "for which another prolonged form () is used as an alternate in some tenses (unless indeed it be identical with the base of G3686 (ὄνομα) through the idea of notoriety); to gratify, i.e. (middle voice) to derive pleasure or advantage from," used in Scripture in contexts that reveal its full semantic depth.
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