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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.

Greek

3081. lusiteleo -- to be advantageous, profitable
... to be advantageous, profitable. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: lusiteleo
Phonetic Spelling: (loo-sit-el-i') Short Definition: it profits Definition: it ...
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4314. pros -- advantageous for, at (denotes local proximity) ...
... 4313, 4314. pros. 4315 . advantageous for, at (denotes local proximity),
toward (denotes motion toward a place). Part of Speech ...
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5624. ophelimos -- useful, profitable
... useful, profitable. From a form of ophelos; helpful or serviceable, ie Advantageous --
profit(-able). see GREEK ophelos. (ophelima) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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2573. kalos -- well
... Cognate: 2573 (the adverbial form of 2570 ) -- well-; as good (advantageous,
appealing), ie as "winsomely attractive." See 2570 (). ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3787. kasher -- to be advantageous, proper, or suitable, to ...
... kasher. 3788 . to be advantageous, proper, or suitable, to succeed. Transliteration:
kasher Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-share') Short Definition: success. ...
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Library

How Sweetness and Tenderness in Prayer Differ from Consolations. ...
... EXPLAINS HOW ADVANTAGEOUS IT WAS FOR ST. ... HOW SWEETNESS AND TENDERNESS IN PRAYER DIFFER
FROM CONSOLATIONS. EXPLAINS HOW ADVANTAGEOUS IT WAS FOR ST. ...
/.../teresa/the interior castle or the mansions/chapter i how sweetness and.htm

On what is Useful: not that which is Advantageous...
... Chapter VI. On what is useful: not that which is advantageous� On what is useful:
not that which is advantageous, but that which is just and virtuous. ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter vi on what is.htm

Familiarity with Good Men is Very Advantageous to All...
... Book II. Chapter XX. Familiarity with good men is very advantageous to
all� Familiarity with good men is very advantageous to ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xx familiarity with good.htm

That Animals were not Produced Spontaneously, but by a Divine ...
... That Animals Were Not Produced Spontaneously, But by a Divine Arrangement, of Which
God Would Have Given Us the Knowledge, If It Were Advantageous for Us to ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xii that animals were not.htm

Answer to Objections: Conditions Necessary to Prayer
... with the objects recollected may sully the thoughts suggested by certain other images,
in the same way we may believe that it is advantageous to remember God ...
/.../origen/origen on prayer/chapter v answer to objections .htm

Let us Next Notice the Statements of Celsus, which Follow the ...
... And such an arrangement appears to be advantageous, not only because it has occurred
to the mind of other nations to decide some things differently, but also ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/origen/origen against celsus/chapter xxv let us next.htm

Whether the Great Extent of the Empire, which Has Been Acquired ...
... Wherefore if the true God is worshipped, and if He is served with genuine rites
and true virtue, it is advantageous that good men should long reign both far ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 3 whether the great extent.htm

Whether it is Lawful to Kill Sinners?
... body demands the excision of a member, through its being decayed or infectious to
the other members, it will be both praiseworthy and advantageous to have it ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is lawful to 7.htm

Though a Widow May have Received no Commandment, yet She Has ...
... Who gives the reins to the will, and advises in the case of others that which he
has found advantageous by his own experience, he who is not easy to catch up ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xiv though a widow.htm

To the Reader. Christian Reader
... Now that the Lord would make those and such-like labours of his faithful servants
useful and advantageous to thy soul, Christian reader, is the prayer of thy ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/to the reader christian reader.htm

Thesaurus

Advantageous (3 Occurrences)
... (a.) Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial;
as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. ...
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Nation (192 Occurrences)
... John 11:50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should
die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish." (WEB KJV WEY ASV ...
/n/nation.htm - 40k

Useful (14 Occurrences)
... or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward
advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels ...
/u/useful.htm - 10k

Well (2882 Occurrences)
... 19. (a.) Good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a natural or moral
sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy; as, it is well for the ...
/w/well.htm - 39k

Wheel (20 Occurrences)
... in the sense of "wheel" (Isaiah 5:28, etc.), but the Revised Version (British and
American) in Ezekiel 10:2, 6, 13 has "whirling wheels," an advantageous change ...
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Favorable (18 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous;
convenient. 3. (n.) Beautiful; well-favored. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Fruit (318 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous
or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or ...
/f/fruit.htm - 40k

Foul (41 Occurrences)
... 7. (superl.) Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind;
a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky ...
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En-gedi (6 Occurrences)
... Seir attempted to invade Judah by way of En-gedi, but were easily defeated as they
came up from the gorges to occupy the advantageous field of battle chosen by ...
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Engedi (6 Occurrences)
... Seir attempted to invade Judah by way of En-gedi, but were easily defeated as they
came up from the gorges to occupy the advantageous field of battle chosen by ...
/e/engedi.htm - 11k

Bible Concordance

Advantageous (3 Occurrences)

John 11:50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
(WEB)

1 Samuel 19:4 And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against thee; for also what he did was very advantageous to thee;
(DBY)

Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the iron hath been blunt, And he the face hath not sharpened, Then doth he increase strength, And wisdom 'is' advantageous to make right.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Advantageous

Related Terms

Nation (192 Occurrences)

Useful (14 Occurrences)

Well (2882 Occurrences)

Wheel (20 Occurrences)

Favorable (18 Occurrences)

Fruit (318 Occurrences)

Foul (41 Occurrences)

En-gedi (6 Occurrences)

Engedi (6 Occurrences)