Romans 3:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου; ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφέλεια τῆς περιτομῆς;

Transliteration

Ti therefore the perisson of the Ioudaiou? or what the ōpheleia of the peritomēs?

Grammar Details

*Ti*: interrogative pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular - what
*oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
*perisson*: adjective, nominative, neuter, singular - advantage/superiority
*Ioudaiou*: noun, genitive, masculine, singular - of Jewish person
*ē*: disjunctive particle - or
*tis*: interrogative pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular - what
*ōpheleia*: noun, nominative, feminine, singular - benefit/advantage
*peritomēs*: noun, genitive, feminine, singular - of circumcision

Word Meanings

*perisson*: advantage/surplus/excess/what is special
*Ioudaiou*: Jew/Jewish person/Judean
*ōpheleia*: benefit/profit/advantage/usefulness

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 25:32 : 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
Eccl 6:8 : 8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Eccl 6:11 : 11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Isa 1:11-15 : 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Rom 2:25-29 : 25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

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