ὄφελον

ὄφελον 2 aorist of ὀφείλω, without the augment (see M, Pr., 201n), used to express a fruitless wish;

[in LXX (with aor. indic.): 2 Mos 16,3 (נָתַן מִי), 4 Mos 14,2 4 Mos 20,3 (לוּא), Sl 119,5 (אַחֲלַי), etc. ;]

in cl. with an infin. (chiefly poët.),

would that: with indic. aor., 1 Kor 4,8 impf., 2 Kor 11,1, Åb 3,15; fut., Gal 5,12 (a practicable wish, see 131., 206 f., 220. The construction with indic. is only found in late writers.)†