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Lexicon :: Strong's G996 - boētheia

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βοήθεια
Transliteration
boētheia (Key)
Pronunciation
bo-ay'-thi-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:628,108

Strong’s Definitions

βοήθεια boḗtheia, bo-ay'-thi-ah; from G998; aid; specially, a rope or chain for frapping a vessel:—help.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G996 in the following manner: help (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G996 in the following manner: help (2x).
  1. help

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βοήθεια boḗtheia, bo-ay'-thi-ah; from G998; aid; specially, a rope or chain for frapping a vessel:—help.
STRONGS G996:
βοήθεια, -ας, , (see βοηθέω), help: Hebrews 4:16, (often in the Sept., chiefly for עֶזְרָה and עֵזֶר; in Greek writings from Thucydides and Xenophon down); plural helps: Acts 27:17 [see Hackett at the passage; B. D. under the word Ship 4; Smith, Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul, pp. 106f, 204f; cf. ὑποζώννυμι].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
27:17
Hebrews
4:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G996 matches the Greek βοήθεια (boētheia),
which occurs 41 times in 41 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 -

‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the LORD,

‘Utterly curse its inhabitants,

Because they did not come to the help of the LORD,

To the help of the LORD against the warriors.’

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the people said, “You should not go out; for if in fact we flee, they will not care about us; and if half of us die, they will not care about us. But [fn]you are [fn]worth ten thousand of us; so now it is better that you will be ready to help us from the city.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:16 -

Then some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:21 - Although Ahaz took a portion out of the house of the LORD and out of the palace of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria, it did not help him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - “For if you keep silent at this time, liberation and rescue will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:13 -

“Is it that my help is not within me,

And that a good outcome is driven away from me?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:21 -

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,

Because I saw [fn]I had support in the gate,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:10 -

My shield is [fn]with God,

Who saves the upright in heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:2 -

May He send you help from the sanctuary,

And support you from Zion!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:19 -

But You, LORD, do not be far away;

You who are my help, hurry to my assistance.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2 -

Take hold of [fn]buckler and shield

And rise up as my help.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:22 -

Hurry to help me,

Lord, my salvation!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 -

Like sheep they sink down to [fn]Sheol;

Death will be their shepherd;

And the upright will rule over them in the morning,

And their form shall be for [fn]Sheol to consume

[fn]So that they have no lofty home.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 -

Oh give us help against the enemy,

For rescue [fn]by man is worthless.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7 -

My salvation and my glory rest on God;

The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 70:1 -

For the music director. A Psalm of David; for a memorial.

God, hurry to save me;

LORD, hurry to help me!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:12 -

God, do not be far from me;

My God, hurry to my aid!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 -

[fn]Once You spoke in vision to Your godly [fn]ones,

And said, “I have [fn]given help to one who is mighty;

I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:43 -

You also turn back the edge of his sword,

And have not made him stand in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:1 -

One who dwells in the shelter of the Most High

Will lodge in the shadow of the Almighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 -

Give us help against the enemy,

For deliverance [fn]by man is worthless.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:1 -

A Song of Ascents.

I will raise my eyes to the mountains;

From where will my help come?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:2 -

My help comes from the LORD,

Who made heaven and earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:8 -

Our help is in the name of the LORD,

Who made heaven and earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:31 -

The horse is prepared for the day of battle,

But the victory belongs to the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:6 -

For by wise guidance you will [fn]wage war,

And in an abundance of counselors there is victory.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:12 -

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory,

But when the wicked rise, people [fn]hide themselves.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:20 - To the [fn]Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak in accordance with this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - “So the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be saved from the king of Assyria; and how are we ourselves to escape?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:5 -

“Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who do not benefit them,

Who are not a help or benefit, but a source of shame and also disgrace.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 -

The pronouncement concerning the animals of the Negev:

Through a land of distress and anguish,

From [fn]where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,

They carry their riches on the [fn]backs of young donkeys,

And their treasures on camels’ humps,

To a people who will not benefit them;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32 -

And every [fn]blow of the [fn]rod of punishment,

Which the LORD will lay on him,

Will be with the music of tambourines and lyres;

And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:1 -

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help

And rely on horses,

And trust in chariots because they are many

And in horsemen because they are very strong,

But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:3 -

Now the Egyptians are human and not God,

And their horses are flesh and not spirit;

So the LORD will stretch out His hand,

And any helper will stumble,

And one who is helped will fall.

And all of them will come to an end together.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 -

“So have those become to you with whom you have labored,

Those who have done business with you from your youth;

Each has wandered in his own [fn]way;

There is no one to save you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 -

LORD, my strength and my stronghold,

And my refuge in the day of distress,

To You the nations will come

From the ends of the earth and say,

“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,

Futility, and [fn]things of no benefit.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘This is what you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, is going to return to its own land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:4 -

Because of the day that is coming

To destroy all the Philistines,

To eliminate from Tyre and Sidon

Every surviving ally;

For the LORD is going to destroy the Philistines,

The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:57 -

You came near on the day I called to You;

You said, “Do not fear!”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 -

Yet our eyes failed,

Looking for [fn]help was useless;

At our observation point we have watched

For a nation that could not save.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - “Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.
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