Acts 27:17
Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
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1 Corinthians 12:28
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
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ἀντίληψις
antílēpsis · an-til'-ape-sis
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
relief
Strong's KJV usage: :--help.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 12:28Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 12:28
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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.
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Strong's first: Acts 27:17Strong's last: Acts 27:17
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Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
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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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