The corpus record

ὠφέλ-ημα

ophelema · τό

a useful, serviceable thing, service, benefit, things good in themselves

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 3 · 5.1/10k
Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k

What it meant — LSJ

a useful, serviceable thing, service, benefit

a useful or serviceable thing, service, benefit, A. Pr. 251; ἀνθρώποισιν ὠφελήματα ib. 501; of a person, ὦ κοινὸν ὠφέλημα θνητοῖσιν φανείς ib. 613, cf. E. Tr. 703.

2 things good in themselves

ὠφελήματα things good in themselves, e.g. harmony, goodwill, opp. εὐχρηστήματα, Stoic. 3.23, cf.136.

II use, advantage, profit

generally, use, advantage, profit, τί δῆτα δόξης . . ὠ. γίγνεται; S. OC 259, cf. X. Hier. 10.3; ὠφελήματα πατρίδος Id. Ages. 7.2.

In the wild

ὠφέλημα · ōphelēma Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 253
ὠφελήματα · ōphelēmata Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 500–503
ὠφέλημα · ōphelēma Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 613–614
ὠφέλημʼ · ōphelēmʼ Euripides, Trojan Women 3 (DIORISIS sentence 372)
ὠφέλημα · ōphelēma Septuaginta, Jeremias 16
ὠφέλημα · ōphelēma Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 258–262

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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