Why this word is great
BEHOOF — [Noun] That which is advantageous to a person; benefit, profit, or interest. From Middle English behoof, behof, from Old English behōf ("advantage, need"), from Proto-West Germanic *bihōf ("use, benefit"), related to have and heave. Unlike "benefit" (a broad, impersonal boon) or "profit" (a ledger’s crisp arithmetic), behoof is advantage with the weight of obligation, the quiet yield of necessity. It is the farmer’s careful rotation of crops for the behoof of next year’s harvest, the scholar’s midnight oil burned for the behoof of knowledge, or the parent’s sacrifice made not for glory but for the behoof of a child’s future—a word that measures gain not in coin, but in the silent calculus of duty.