Antonyms: loss. profit (noun). In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).
Genres in the Bible. The Bible is literature, as is any book, filled with many kinds or types of language. It has Law, History, Wisdom, Poetry, Gospel, Epistles, Prophecy, and Apocalyptic Literature.
The categories include texts and versions, theological and exegetical approaches, biblical exegesis, Old Testament and New Testament exegesis, extrabiblical sources, philology, civilizations of the biblical world, archaeology and topography, realia, institutions and rituals, biblical persons, history of Israel, biblical theology, concepts and symbols, the history of exegesis, and history of religions.