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βοήθειαStrong’s G0996

boētheia

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Boētheia is the Greek word usually translated “supports” and “help”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“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.”
Acts 27:17 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “supports” and “help”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • supports 1
  • help 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Acts 1
  • Hebrews 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

βοήθεια boētheia · help

βοήθεια, -ας, ἡ (see: βοηθέω), [in LXX for עֵזֶר, etc. ;] help: Heb.4:16; pl., helps, "frapping," a technical nautical term (MM, Exp., x; DB, ext., 367): Act.27:17.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “help” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

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.
  4. To remedy; to change for the better.
All definitions and other forms of “help”
  1. To prevent; to hinder.
  2. To forbear; to avoid.

HELP, verb intransitive

To lend aid; to contribute strength or means.

    HELP, noun

    Aid; assistance; strength or means furnished towards promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress.

    1. “Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man” Psalms 60:11
    2. That which gives assistance; he or that which contributes to advance a purpose.“God is a very present help in time of trouble” Psalms 46:1
    3. Remedy; relief.
    4. A hired man or woman; a servant.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.