Definitions for behoof

behoof be·hoof

Spelling: [bih-hoof]
IPA: /bɪˈhuf/

Behoof is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in behoof (befhoo).

Definitions for behoof

noun

  1. use; advantage; benefit:

Origin of behoof

before 1000; Middle English behove, Old English behōf profit, need; cognate with Dutch behoef, German Behuf

Examples for behoof

She had, as we know, already "worked the Seminary" in behoof of her "policy."

Even the chapel-service has been brightened up for their behoof.

“Nay, I would not have you peril your life for my behoof,” she replied, with a smile.

His soul does not appear to have been riven by a consciousness of sin in this behoof.

If ye do well, to your own behoof will ye do it; and if ye do evil, against yourselves will ye do it.

This is why I have moulded and drilled you, polished and ripened you, for my own behoof.

Government is not for the behoof of rulers, but of the ruled also.

I could wish therefore, that, for their benefit and behoof, this circumstance were omitted.

If sages were ever wise in their own behoof, I might have foreseen all this.

She could almost believe that he had been specially made and destined for her behoof.

Word Value for behoof
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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