βοηθός
boēthós · G998 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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(Derivative of βοηθέω ‘to help,’) One who provides help or assistance (helper, patron (in the sense of one who supports a person or endeavor))
ExamplesHebrews 13:6 so that we confidently say, “THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κύριοςLord 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- προστάτις prostátis · G4368 · helper
- Both terms denote the role of a helper or patron who supports and assists others.
In the other Testament 3 words
- עֵזֶר ʻêzer · H5828 · help, assistance, support
- Hebrew עֵזֶר (ʻêzer, H5828) denotes the abstract concept or concrete provision of help/aid, while Greek βοηθός (boēthós, G998) specifically denotes the personal agent who provides that help—a helper, succorer, or assistant as a role or person rather than the help itself.
- עָזַר ʻâzar · H5826 · to be helped, to receive help, to help
- Hebrew עָזַר denotes the act of helping or providing succor, while Greek βοηθός denotes the agent who provides help (the succorer/helper); the Greek term is the nominalized agent form of the conceptually parallel Hebrew verbal root.
- עֶזְרָה ʻezrâh · H5833 · help, (God as one's) Helper
- Greek βοηθός specifically denotes a person who provides help (a helper/succorer), while Hebrew עֶזְרָה denotes the abstract concept or act of help itself; the terms are cross-linguistic translation equivalents where contexts requiring 'help' in Hebrew align with 'helper' in Greek.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Helper, patron (in the sense of one who supports a person or endeavor)35.11
- Used of one who provides aid, as of the Lord declared to be my helper in the quotation in Hebrews 13:6.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βοηθόν, helping (νεης, Herodotus 5, 97; στήριγμα, Tobit 8:6); mostly as a substantive (so…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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