KJV Dictionary Definition: benefit

benefit

BEN'EFIT, n. Primarily from L. beneficium, or benefactum.

1. An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

Bless the Lord,O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Ps.103.

2. Advantage; profit; a word of extensive use, and expressing whatever contributes to promote prosperity and personal happiness, or add value to property.

Men have no right to what is not for their benefit.

3. In law, benefit of clergy. See Clergy.

BEN'EFIT, v.t. To do good to; to advantage; to advance in health, or prosperity; applied either to persons or things; as, exercise benefits health; trade benefits a nation.

BEN'EFIT, v.i. To gain advantage; to make improvement; as, he has benefited by good advice; that is, he has been benefited.

benefited

BEN'EFITED, pp. Profited; having received benefit.

benefiting

BEN'EFITING, ppr. Doing good to; profiting; gaining advantage.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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