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Strong's #3081 - λυσιτελεῖ
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- to pay the taxes
- to return expenses
- to be useful, advantageous, it profits
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λῡσῐτέλ-εια, ἡ,
advantage, profit, Thphr. ap. D.L. 5.54, D.S. 1.36, LXX 2 Maccabees 2:27, J. AJ 16.9.1; λ. περὶ τὸν χρόνον economy in respect of time, i.e. by postponement of payments until they fell due, Plb. 31.27.11; διὰ λυσιτέλειαν for the sake of economy, Dsc. 5.8. — Rejected by the Atticists, Poll. 5.136, Moer. p.248 P., Phot.
λυσιτελέω, λυσιτέλω; (from λυσιτελής, and this from λύω to pay, and τά τέλη (cf. τέλος, 2)); (from Herodotus down); properly, to pay the taxes; to return expenses, hence, to be useful, advantageous; impersonally, λυσιτελεῖ, it profits; followed by ἤ (see ἤ, 3 f.), it is better: τίνι; followed by εἰ, Luke 17:2.
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** λυσιτελέω , -ῶ
(<λυσιτελής , useful, prop., τὰ τέλη λύων ),
[in LXX: Tobit 3:6, Sirach 20:10; Sirach 20:14; Sirach 29:11 *;]
1. prop., to indemnify, pay expenses.
2. to be useful, to profit; usually impers., λυσιτελεῖ , it profits: c, dat. pers., seq. εἰ . . . ἤ , Luke 17:2.†
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For the impersonal λυσιτελεῖ, as in Luke 17:2 (cf. Tobit 3:6), cf. P Hamb I. 27.17 (B.C. 250) ὥστε λυσιτελεῖ μισθώσασθαι ἢ χορτάσματα ζητεῖν.
The adj. is common—P Petr II. 13(6).7 (B.C. 258–3) ὅτι εἴη λυσιτελὴς ἡ ἐργολαβία (contract for work), ib. III. 41 verso.6 λυσιτελέστερον οὗν φαίνεται, P Par 62iv. 8 (c. B.C. 170) ἐὰν μὴ ἐπί τινων ἄλλο τι λυσιτελέστερον συγχωρηθῇ ἐπὶ τῆς πράσεως.
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