The advantageous quality of being beneficial.
1Once there, let each dig for his own behoof, and enrich himself.
2The man of affairs works for the behoof and the use of poetry.
3There hath been a special interposition o' Providence in our behoof.
4Some score of glebe-bound peasants cultivated the large estate for their lord's behoof.
5At Croton, Pythagoras enjoyed his moment's triumph, ruling men to their own behoof.
6If sages were ever wise in their own behoof, I might have foreseen all this.
7But that state transacted business on a hardly less grand scale on its own behoof.
8But be it known to you that that last sarcasm was especially for my own behoof.
9But this proved impracticable; the placard must remain where it stood for the behoof of other invalids.
10If ye believe in Him Whom God shall make manifest, to your own behoof do ye believe.
11For its behoof are all his acts.
12We sanction amusements that give relief to misery-andthe wealthy may waltz unblamed for behoof of the poor.
13And on the highways he had trees put down and wells dug for the behoof of men and beasts.
14And to recite the Koran: and whoever is rightly guided, assuredly will be rightly guided to his own behoof.
15If ye believe, to your own behoof will ye believe; and if ye believe not, ye yourselves will suffer.
16Their magic for the behoof of edible objects is attributed to the suddenness of their first rains,[IBID.