יָעַל
ya.al
to gain
Lexicon Entry
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Occurrences in Scripture
23 total occurrences across the text
Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
Job 15:3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
Job 30:13They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.
Job 35:3that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Isaiah 30:5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
Isaiah 30:5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
Isaiah 30:6The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
Isaiah 44:9Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
Isaiah 44:10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah 47:12“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.
Isaiah 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
Isaiah 57:12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
Jeremiah 2:8The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.
Jeremiah 2:11Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
Jeremiah 7:8Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
Jeremiah 12:13They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
Jeremiah 16:19Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
Jeremiah 23:32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23:32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
Habakkuk 2:18“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?