1. profit, advantage, gain — The noun yithron (יִתְרוֹן) meaning 'profit, advantage, gain, benefit' — the surplus or net benefit resulting from labor or wisdom. Almost exclusively a Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes term (Eccl 1:3; 2:11,13; 3:9; 5:8,15; 7:12; 10:10,11), expressing the recurring question of what lasting profit or advantage there is in human toil. English renders as profit/advantage; Spanish provecho/ventaja 'benefit/advantage'; Hindi लाभ (laabh) 'profit'; Arabic فَائِدَة (fa'ida) 'benefit' and يِتְרוֹן as a loanword; Korean 유익함 (yuikham) 'usefulness/profit'; Swahili faida 'profit/benefit.' Both clusters express the identical concept — the second (1x) has the prepositional prefix ke- 'like/as' but the underlying noun meaning is the same. 10×
AR["الحَمَاقَةِ","الَّذِي-","بَاطِلٌ","فَائِدَةُ","وَفَضْلُ","وِ-يِتْرُون","يُوجَدُ","يِتْرُون"]·ben["এবং-লাভ","এবং-সুবিধা","যেমন-লাভ","লাভ","সুবিধা"]·DE["Vorteil","[כיתרון]","und-Vorteil"]·EN["advantage","and-profit-of","and-the-advantage-of","like-profit-of","profit"]·FR["comme-profit","et-profit","profit"]·heb["ו-יתרון","יתרון","כ-יתרון"]·HI["और-लाभ","जैसे-लाभ","लाभ"]·ID["Dan-keuntungan","keuntungan","seperti-keuntungan","tetapi-keunggulan","tetapi-keuntungan"]·IT["come-profitto","e-profitto","profitto"]·jav["kados-paédah","lan-kauntunganipun","lan-paédahipun","paédah","paédahipun"]·KO["같은-유익함","그리고-유익함","유익함"]·PT["E-vantagem-de","como-vantagem","e-vantagem-de","proveito","é-proveito"]·RU["И-выгода","а-преимущество","выгода","выгоды","и-преимущество","как-преимущество","польза","пользы","преимущество"]·ES["Y-ventaja-de","como-ventaja-de","provecho","ventaja","y-ventaja-de"]·SW["Na-faida-ya","faida","kama-faida","lakini-faida-ya"]·TR["fayda","faydasi-gibi","ve-fayda","ve-faydasi"]·urd["اور-فائدہ","جیسا-فائدہ","فائدہ"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† יִתְרוֹן 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…