Dictionary entry

Benefit (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ben″e‐fit, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Benefited; p. pr. & vb. n.Benefitting.] To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.

I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Jer. xviii. 10.