Bible Dictionary
ADVANTAGE
Advantage means profit, benefit, or gain. Scripture also uses the term negatively for exploiting or taking advantage of another person.
Definition
Advantage means profit, benefit, or gain. In some contexts it denotes an opportunity to exploit another person or obtain gain from him.
Biblical Usage
In Job and Romans the term is explained by the idea of profit. In several Pauline passages it means taking advantage, defrauding, or making gain of another; in Jude it means profit.
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>ad-van'-taj (cakhan): In Job 35:3 is interpreted in succeeding clause as "profit." In Ro 3:1 perissos, is likewise interpreted by a paraphrase in the next sentence. the Revised Version (British and American) prefers to render pleonekteo by "take advantage," where the King James Version has "defraud" (2Co 7:2), or "make gain of" (2Co 12:17; compare 2Co 2:11). In Jude 1:16 "advantage" (opheleia) means "profit."</p>