Genesis 2:18
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
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Hebrews 4:16
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
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Genesis
33 verses
Exodus
32 verses
Deuteronomy
55 verses
Joshua
44 verses
Judges
21 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
2 Samuel
43 verses
2 Kings
32 verses
1 Chronicles
76 verses
2 Chronicles
1311 verses
Ezra
22 verses
Job
44 verses
Psalms
4240 verses
Ecclesiastes
11 verses
Isaiah
1313 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Lamentations
22 verses
Ezekiel
22 verses
Daniel
33 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Mark
22 verses
Luke
22 verses
Acts
33 verses
Philippians
11 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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עָזַר
ʻâzar · aw-zar'
44 times translated as this KJV form81 total Strong's occurrences
to surround, i.e. protect or aid
Strong's KJV usage: help, succour.
Strong's first: Genesis 49:25Strong's last: Daniel 11:45
Open full H5826 profile →עֶזְרָה
ʻezrâh · ez-raw'
24 times translated as this KJV form26 total Strong's occurrences
aid
Strong's KJV usage: help(-ed, -er).
Strong's first: Judges 5:23Strong's last: Lamentations 4:17
Open full H5833 profile →עֵזֶר
ʻêzer · ay'-zer
19 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
aid
Strong's KJV usage: help.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 18:4Strong's last: Hosea 13:9
Open full H5828 profile →יָשַׁע
yâshaʻ · yaw-shah'
10 times translated as this KJV form205 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, avenging, defend, deliver(-er), help, preserve, rescue, be safe, bring (having) salvation, save(-iour), get victory.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 10:11Strong's last: Psalms 12:1
Open full H3467 profile →תְּשׁוּעָה
tᵉshûwʻâh · tesh-oo-aw'
5 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
rescue (literal or figurative, persons, national or spiritual)
Strong's KJV usage: deliverance, help, safety, salvation, victory.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 11:9Strong's last: Psalms 146:3
Open full H8668 profile →βοηθέω
boēthéō · bo-ay-theh'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to aid or relieve
Strong's KJV usage: :--help, succor.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 15:25Strong's last: Acts 21:28
Open full G997 profile →יְשׁוּעָה
yᵉshûwʻâh · yesh-oo'-aw
3 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
something saved, i.e. (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity
Strong's KJV usage: deliverance, health, help(-ing), salvation, save, saving (health), welfare.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 10:11Strong's last: Psalms 42:5
Open full H3444 profile →συλλαμβάνω
syllambánō · sool-lam-ban'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
to clasp, i.e. seize (arrest, capture); specially, to conceive (literally or figuratively); by implication, to aid
Strong's KJV usage: :--catch, conceive, help, take.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 5:7Strong's last: Philippians 4:3
Open full G4815 profile →חָזַק
châzaq · khaw-zak'
2 times translated as this KJV form288 total Strong's occurrences
to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer
Strong's KJV usage: aid, amend, × calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 29:34Strong's last: Job 8:20
Open full H2388 profile →עָזַב
ʻâzab · aw-zab'
2 times translated as this KJV form215 total Strong's occurrences
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, × surely.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 23:5Strong's last: Exodus 23:5
Open full H5800 profile →βοήθεια
boḗtheia · bo-ay'-thi-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
aid; specially, a rope or chain for frapping a vessel
Strong's KJV usage: :--help.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 4:16Strong's last: Hebrews 4:16
Open full G996 profile →ἐπικουρία
epikouría · ep-ee-koo-ree'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
assistance
Strong's KJV usage: :--help.
Strong's first: Acts 26:22Strong's last: Acts 26:22
Open full G1947 profile →συναντιλαμβάνομαι
synantilambánomai · soon-an-tee-lam-ban'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to take hold of opposite together, i.e. co-operate (assist)
Strong's KJV usage: :--help.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 10:40Strong's last: Luke 10:40
Open full G4878 profile →נָשָׂא
nâsâʼ · naw-saw'
1 times translated as this KJV form647 total Strong's occurrences
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Strong's KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable ( man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, × needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, swear, take (away, up), × utterly, wear, yield.
Strong's first: Ezra 1:4Strong's last: Ezra 1:4
Open full H5375 profile →קִרְאָה
qirʼâh · keer-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form121 total Strong's occurrences
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Strong's KJV usage: × against (he come), help, meet, seek, × to, × in the way.
Strong's first: Psalms 59:4Strong's last: Psalms 59:4
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H5833
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
H5833
And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
H5828
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
H5826
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
H5833
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
H5833
Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
H5826
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
H5826
For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
H5826
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
H5826
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
H5826
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
H5826
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
H5826
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
English meaning and historical usage.
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help
HELP, verb transitive A regular verb; the old past tense and participle holp and holpen being obsolete.
1. To aid; to assist; to lend strength or means towards effecting a purpose; as, to help a man in his work; to help another in raising a building; to help one to pay his debts; to help the memory or the understanding.
2. To assist; to succor; to lend means of deliverance; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
3. To relieve; to cure, or to mitigate pain or disease.
HELP and ease them, but by no means bemoan them.
The true calamus helps a cough.
Sometimes with of; as, to help one of blindness.
4. To remedy; to change for the better.
Cease to lament for what thou cans't not help
5. To prevent; to hinder. The evil approached, and who can help it?
6. To forbear; to avoid.
I cannot help remarking the resemblance between him and our author--
To help forward, to advance by assistance.
To help on, to forward; to promote by aid.
To help out, to aid in delivering from difficulty, or to aid in completing a design.
The god of learning and of light,
Would want a god himself to help him out.
To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over a difficulty.
To help off, to remove by help; as, to help off time. [Unusual.]
To help to, to supply with; to furnish with.
Whom they would help to a kingdom. 1 Maccabees.
Also, to present to at table; as, to help one to a glass of wine.
HELP, verb intransitive To lend aid; to contribute strength or means.
A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person.
To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.
HELP, noun Aid; assistance; strength or means furnished towards promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress.
Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man. Psalms 60:11.
1. That which gives assistance; he or that which contributes to advance a purpose.
Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.
God is a very present help in time of trouble. Psalms 46:1.
2. Remedy; relief. The evil is done; there is no help for it. There is no help for the man; his disease is incurable.
3. A hired man or woman; a servant.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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