noun · feminine
boētheias
Strong’sG996
assistance, a help
stem boēthei-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
βοήθεια, -ας, ἡ (v.s. βοηθέω),
[in LXX for עֵזֶר, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G996 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbo-ay'-thi-ah
aid; specially, a rope or chain for frapping a vessel
Fromfrom G998;
King Jameshelp.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(Doric dialect βοάθοια Refs, help, aid, Refs 5th c.BC+; βοήθειαν ἔχειν πρὸς ὑγίειαν, πρὸς τὴν ἑκάστου ὑπερβολὴν μηχανᾶσθαι, Refs 4th c.BC+: nominative singular, as exclamation 'help!', NT+5th c.BC+
2 medical aid, cure, κίνδυνος ἰσχυρότερος πάσης β. Refs 1st c.AD+
II force of auxiliaries, ἡ παρὰ Διονυσίου β. Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | boētheias | boētheiais |
| object accusative | boētheian1×βοήθειαν | boētheiain |
| direct address vocative | boētheiar | boētheiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | boētheiau | boētheiaiu |
| to, for dative | boētheia | boētheiai1×βοηθείαις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
boētheia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
boētheian“help”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 4:16… elesem kai charitan heuriskaneia eis eukairan boētheian.… receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
boētheiai“supports”to, fordative plural1×
Acts 27:17“supports”han airarantois boētheiai chrole hupozōnarōntois tem ploiem; foborōntois tē …After hoisting it up, the crew used ropes to undergird the ship. And fearing that they …