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Concordances
Thompson Chain Reference
• Profitable Things
• Profit and Loss
The Topic Concordance
• Profit
Dictionaries
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Profit
King James Dictionary
• Profiting
• Profited
• Profitably
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Profit, Profitable, Profiting
Webster Dictionary
• Profiting
• Profited
• Profitable
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Excess Profits Duty and Tax
• Profit - Sharing and Co-Partnership
• Profit-Sharing
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Lexicons
• ܐܳܕ݂ܫܳܐ
• ܗܳܢܳܐ
• ܗܶܢܝܳܢܳܐ
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• ἐργασία
• εὔχρηστος
• καρπός
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• בָּצַע
• בֶּצַע
• יותֵר
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(1):

(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.

(2):

(n.) Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.

(3):

(n.) Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,

(4):

(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.

(5):

(n.) To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.