Lexical Summary ophelon: would that (used to express an unattainable wish) Original Word: ὄφελονTransliteration: ophelon Phonetic Spelling: (of'-el-on) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: would that (used to express an unattainable wish) Meaning: would that (used to express an unattainable wish) Strong's Concordance would that, I wishFirst person singular of a past tense of opheilo; I ought (wish), i.e. (interjection) oh that! -- would (to God). see GREEK opheilo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3785: ὄφελονὄφελον (for ὠφελον, without the augment, 2 aorist of ὀφείλω; in earlier Greek with an infinitive, as ὠφελον θανεῖν, I ought to have died, expressive of a wish, equivalent to would that I were dead; in later Greek it assumes the nature of an interjection, to be rendered) would that, where one wishes that a thing had happened which has not happened, or that a thing be done which probably will not be done (cf. Winers Grammar, 301f (283); Buttmann, § 150, 5): with an optative present Revelation 3:15 Rec.; with an indicative imperfect, Rev. ibid. G L T Tr WH; 2 Corinthians 11:1 (Epictetus diss. 2, 18, 15; Ignatius ad Smyrn. c. 12 [ET]); with an indicative aorist, 1 Corinthians 4:8 (Psalm 118:5 |
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