merit
2 occurrences across the corpus
Jubilees
Jubilees 35:22
thou hast desired that her bones may be near thy bones. And Jacob, my brother, also, I shall love above all flesh; for I have not a brother in all the earth but him only: and this is no great merit for me if I love him; for he is my brother, and we were sown together in thy body, and together came
OT Pseudepigrapha
The Words of Ahikar (Aramaic Papyrus) 1:92
Two things are a merit (?), and of three there is pleasure to Shamash: one who drinks wine and gives it (to others), one who restrains (?) wisdom . . .