Definition

properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• at all
• set forward
• can do good
• (be
• have) profit
• (able)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.