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Lexicon :: Strong's G996 - boētheia

Aa
βοήθεια
Transliteration
boētheia (Key)
Pronunciation
bo-ay'-thi-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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 BoxJdg 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 -
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of Jehovah.
Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof,
Because they came not to the help of Jehovah,
To the help of Jehovah against the mighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the people said, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but thou art worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that thou be ready to succor us out of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:16 - And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold unto David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:21 - For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Jehovah, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but it helped him not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father’s house will perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:13 -
Is it not that I have no help in me,
And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:21 -
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
Because I saw my help in the gate:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:10 -
My shield is with God,
Who saveth the upright in heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:2 -
Send thee help from the sanctuary,
And strengthen thee out of Zion;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:19 -
But be not thou far off, O Jehovah:
O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:2 -
Take hold of shield and buckler,
And stand up for my help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:22

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 -
They are appointed as a flock for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd:
And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume,
That there be no habitation for it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:11 -
Give us help against the adversary;
For vain is the help of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 70:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 70:1 -
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; to bring to remembrance.
Make haste, O God, to deliver me;
Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 89:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 -
Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints,
And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:43

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:43 -
Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword,
And hast not made him to stand in the battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:1 -
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:12 -
Give us help against the adversary;
For vain is the help of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:1

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:2 -
My help cometh from Jehovah,
Who made heaven and earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:31 -
The horse is prepared against the day of battle;
But victory is of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:6 -
For by wise guidance thou shalt make thy war;
And in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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 BoxIsa 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:20 - To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:5 - They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32 - And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with the sound of tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing of his arm will he fight with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:1 - Woe to them that 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 look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:3 - Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - Thus shall the things be unto thee wherein thou hast labored: they that have trafficked with thee from thy youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to save thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:4 - because of the day that cometh to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remaineth: for Jehovah will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:57 -
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 -
Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help:
In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries.
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