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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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All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 BoxJdg 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 - ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the LORD. ‘Curse its people bitterly, because they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the men said, “You must not go out; if we are forced to flee, they won’t care about us. Even if half of us die, they won’t care; but you are worth ten thousand of us.[fn] It would be better now for you to give us support from the city.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:16 - Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:21 - Ahaz took some of the things from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace and from the officials and presented them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:13 - Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:21 - if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:2 - May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:19 - But you, LORD, do not be far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2 - Take up shield and armor; arise and come to my aid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:22 - Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - Give us aid against the enemy, for human help is worthless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7 - My salvation and my honor depend on God[fn]; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 70:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 70:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of David. A petition. Hasten, O God, to save me; come quickly, LORD, to help me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:12 - Do not be far from me, my God; come quickly, God, to help me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 - Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:43

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:43 - Indeed, you have turned back the edge of his sword and have not supported him in battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:1 - Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 - Give us aid against the enemy, for human help is worthless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:1 - A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:31 - The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:6 - Surely you need guidance to wage war, and victory is won through many advisers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:12 - When the righteous triumph, there is great elation; but when the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:20 - Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - In that day the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:5 - everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them, who bring neither help nor advantage, but only shame and disgrace.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32 - Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing club will be to the music of timbrels and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:1 - Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:3 - But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, those who help will stumble, those who are helped will fall; all will perish together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - That is all they are to you— these you have dealt with and labored with since childhood. All of them go on in their error; there is not one that can save you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me, ‘Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:4 - For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines and to remove all survivors who could help Tyre and Sidon. The LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:57 - You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 - Moreover, our eyes failed, looking in vain for help; from our towers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - When they fall, they will receive a little help, and many who are not sincere will join them.
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