Helper
עֵ֫זֶרStrong’s H5828ezer (e-zer)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ezer is the Hebrew word usually translated “help my”, “help their” and “helper”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.”
Meaning
- Help, succourone who helps
How it's translated
- help my 4
- help their 3
- a helper 2
- help your 2
- help our 2
- help 2
- help his 2
- and a help 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 11
- Deuteronomy 3
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 2:18And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
- Genesis 2:20And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
- Exodus 18:4And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
- Deuteronomy 33:7And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
- Deuteronomy 33:26There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
- Deuteronomy 33:29Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Hebrew dictionary
עֵ֫זֶר ezer · helper
1) help, succour 1a) help, succour 1b) one who helps
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “helper” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HELP'ER, noun
One that helps, aids or assists; an assistant; an auxiliary.
- One that furnishes or administers a remedy.
- One that supplies with any thing wanted; with to.
- A supernumerary 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.