Word Summary
oninēmi: to profit, help
Original Word: ὀνίνημιTransliteration: oninēmi
Phonetic Spelling: (on-in'-ay-mee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to profit, help
Meaning: to profit, help
Strong's Concordance
have joy.
A prolonged form of an apparently primary verb (onomai, to slur); for which another prolonged form (onao) is used as an alternate in some tenses (unless indeed it be identical with the base of onoma through the idea of notoriety); to gratify, i.e. (middle voice) to derive pleasure or advantage from -- have joy.
see GREEK onoma
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3685: ὀνίνημιὀνίνημι: from
Homer down;
to be useful, to profit, help (Latin
juvo); middle, present
ὀνίναμαι; 2 aorist
ὠνήμην (and later
ὠνάμην, see
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 12f; Kühner, § 343 under the word, i., p. 880; (
Veitch, under the word)), optative
ὀναίμην;
to receive profit or advantage, be helped (or have joy (Latin
juvor)):
τίνος, of one,
Philemon 1:20 (see
Lightfoot at the passage). (Elsewhere in the Scriptures only in Sir. 30:2.)