ὠφελείας (opheleias)

ὠφελείας is an Ancient Greek form of ὠφέλεια, meaning “help, advantage”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 189 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.98: … εἶναι τὸν σπουδαῖον ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος μὴ ἐξαγαγεῖν αὑτόν· οὐ γὰρ ἀποβαλεῖν τὴν φρόνησιν ἕνεκα τῆς τῶν ἀφρόνων ὠφελείας.

Xenophon, On Hunting 2.1: … εἶτα δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ ἄλλα παιδεύματα, τὸν μὲν ἔχοντα σκεψάμενον τὴν οὐσίαν, ᾧ μὲν ἔστιν ἱκανή, ἀξίως τῆς αὑτοῦ ὡφελείας, ᾧ δὲ μὴ ἔστιν, ἀλλʼ οὖν τήν γε προθυμίαν παρεχέσθω μηδὲν ἐλλείπων τῆς ἑαυτοῦ δυνάμεως.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8.5: … ἀποδεχόμενοι ἀλλήλους, μὴ συζῶντες δέ, εὔνοις ἐοίκασι μᾶλλον ἢ φίλοις. οὐδὲνγὰρ οὕτως ἐστὶ φίλων ὡς τὸ συζῆν ʽὡ̓φελείας μὲν γὰρ οἱ ἐνδεεῖς ὀρέγονται, συνημερεύειν δὲ καὶ οἱ μακάριοι· μονώταις γὰρ εἶναι τούτοις ἥκιστα προσήκεἰ· συ …

All forms of ὠφέλεια (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.