Motar מוֹתָר

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Motar (Hebrew מוֹתָר, Strong's H4195) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “advantage”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) pre-eminence, abundance, profit, superiority
1a) abundance, plenty
1b) pre-eminence, superiority

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	profit (1), plenteousness (1), preeminence (1)
BSB	profit (1), bring plenty (1), advantage (1)

Every verse with Motar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Proverbs 14:23
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).