Exodus 2:17
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
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Helped
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Revelation 12:16
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
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5 occurrences in 5 verses.
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עָזַר
ʻâzar · aw-zar'
18 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: 1 Samuel 7:12Strong's last: Zechariah 1:15
Open full H5826 profile →יָשַׁע
yâshaʻ · yaw-shah'
2 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.
Strong's first: Exodus 2:17Strong's last: Psalms 116:6
Open full H3467 profile →βοηθέω
boēthéō · bo-ay-theh'-o
1 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: Revelation 12:16Strong's last: Revelation 12:16
Open full G997 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: Esther 9:3Strong's last: Esther 9:3
Open full H5375 profile →עֶזְרָה
ʻezrâh · ez-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form26 total Strong's occurrences
aid
Strong's KJV usage: help(-ed, -er).
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 28:21Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 28:21
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H5826
And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
H5826
And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
H5826
And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.
H5826
And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
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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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