יִתְרוֹןyithrôwn

advantage, profit, only Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 2:13; Ecclesiastes 5:15; Ecclesiastes 10:11; Ecclesiastes 3:9)

Pronunciation: yith-rone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3504

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 10 times in the Bible.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:3 What do people get for all their hard work under the sun?
  • Ecclesiastes 2:11 But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.
  • Ecclesiastes 2:13 I thought, “Wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness.
  • Ecclesiastes 3:9 What do people really get for all their hard work?
  • Ecclesiastes 5:9 Even the king milks the land for his own profit!
  • Ecclesiastes 5:16 And this, too, is a very serious problem. People leave this world no better off than when they came. All their hard work is for nothing—like working for the wind.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).