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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, ἡ, (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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:23

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.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:16 - Then some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:21

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance 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?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:13 - “Is it that my help is not within me,
And that [fn]deliverance is driven from me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:21

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,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:10 - My shield is [fn]with God,
Who saves the upright in heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:2 - May He send you help from the sanctuary
And support you from Zion!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:19 - But You, O LORD, be not far off;
O You my help, hasten to my assistance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2 - Take hold of [fn]buckler and shield
And rise up for my help.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:22 - Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - As sheep they are appointed for [fn]Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for [fn]Sheol to consume
[fn]So that they have no habitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - O give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance [fn]by man is in vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 62:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7 - On God my salvation and my glory rest;
The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 70:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 70:1 - For the choir director. A Psalm of David; for a memorial.
O God, hasten to deliver me;
O LORD, hasten to my help!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:12 - O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, hasten to my help!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:19

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:43

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:43 - You also turn back the edge of his sword
And have not made him stand in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:1 - He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 - Oh give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance [fn]by man is in vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 121:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:1 - A Song of Ascents.
I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;
From where shall my help come?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 121:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:2 - My help comes from the LORD,
Who made heaven and earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 124:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:8 - Our help is in the name of the LORD,
Who made heaven and earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:31 - The horse is prepared for the day of battle,
But victory belongs to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:6 - For by wise guidance you will [fn]wage war,
And in abundance of counselors there is victory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:12 - When the righteous triumph, there is great glory,
But when the wicked rise, men [fn]hide themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:20 - To the [fn]law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - “So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:5 - “Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them,
Who are not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - The [fn]oracle concerning the beasts 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 cannot profit them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:32

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:1

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!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:3 - Now the Egyptians are men and not God,
And their horses are flesh and not spirit;
So the LORD will stretch out His hand,
And he who helps will stumble
And he who is helped will fall,
And all of them will come to an end together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - “So have those become to you with whom you have labored,
Who have trafficked with you from your youth;
Each has wandered in his own [fn]way;
There is none to save you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O 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 profit.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘Thus 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 for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:4 - On account of the day that is coming
To destroy all the Philistines,
To cut off from Tyre and Sidon
Every ally that is left;
For the LORD is going to destroy the Philistines,
The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:57 - You drew near when I called on You;
You said, “Do not fear!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 - Yet our eyes failed,
Looking for [fn]help was useless;
In our watching we have watched
For a nation that could not save.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:34

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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