Help
עֶזְרָהStrong’s H5833ezrah (ez-rah)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ezrah is the Hebrew word usually translated “help my”, “help” and “help of”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.”
Meaning
- Help, succour, assistancehelp, succour · one who helps
How it's translated
- help my 5
- to help my 5
- for help 4
- a help 4
- to help of 2
- help 2
- help of 1
- to help 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 14
- Isaiah 4
- Job 2
- Judges 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Jeremiah 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 28:21For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
- Job 6:13Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
- Job 31:21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
- Psalms 22:19But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
- Psalms 27:9Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- Psalms 35:2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Hebrew dictionary
עֶזְרָה ezrah · help
1) help, succour, assistance 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 “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.
- 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.
- To assist; to succor; to lend means of deliverance; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
- To relieve; to cure, or to mitigate pain or disease.
- To remedy; to change for the better.
All definitions and other forms of “help”
- To prevent; to hinder.
- 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.
- “Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man” Psalms 60:11
- 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
- Remedy; relief.
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.