יָעַל yâʻal — properly, to ascend
Translated in the KJV as × at all, set forward, can do good, (be, have) profit.
a primitive root; properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited).
yâʻal in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 15Infinitive construct 5Participle (active) 1Infinitive absolute 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›