# yitron (יִתְרוֹן)

pronounced: yit-RON


**Gain, profit — what is left over when everything is counted; a word found only in Ecclesiastes**

## In Scripture

> What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
> — Ecclesiastes 1:3 (The first question of the book: what gain is left from all a man’s labor under the sun?)

> Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
> — Ecclesiastes 2:11 (After the great experiment: no profit under the sun.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


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