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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, says the angel of the LORD, curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the men said, "You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore it is better that you send us help from the city."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:16 - And some of the men 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 - For Ahaz took from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria; but it did not help him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:13 - In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:21 - if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:10 - My shield is 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 give you support from Zion!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:19 - But thou, O LORD, be not far off! O thou my help, hasten to my aid!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2 - Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise 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 - Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 - O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 62:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7 - On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 70:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 70:1 - To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. Be pleased, O God, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 - Of old thou didst speak in a vision to thy faithful one, and say: "I have set the crown upon 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 - Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and thou hast 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, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 - O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 121:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:1 - A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does 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 made ready for the day of battle, but the 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 can wage your 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 hide themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:20 - To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, 'Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom 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 - every one comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace."

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and the flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:32

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32 - And every stroke of the staff of punishment which the LORD lays upon them will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres; battling with brandished arm he will fight with 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, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:3 - The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have trafficked with you from your youth; they wander about each in his own direction; there is no one 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, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, worthless things in which there is 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 shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, 'Behold, Pharaoh's army which came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:4 - because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the LORD is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:57 - Thou didst come near when I called on thee; thou didst say, 'Do not fear!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 - Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - When they fall, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery;
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