adjective
boēthos
Strong’sG998
a helper
stem boēth-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.
βοηθός, -ον (v.s. βοηθέω),
[in LXX chiefly for עזר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G998 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbo-ay-thos'
a succorer
Fromfrom G995 and theo (to run);
King Jameshelper.
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 βοᾱ-, ον, (βοή, θέω, compare βοη-δρόμος) hasting to the cry for help or the call to arms, Refs 8th c.BC+; β. ἅρμα a chariot hasting to the battle, Refs
II aiding, helping, Refs 5th c.BC+:— substantive, helper, probably Refs 3rd c.BC+:—in Prose βοηθός, όν, assisting, auxiliary, νῆες Refs 5th c.BC+; frequently as substantive, assistant, Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῦ στρατηγοῦ Refs 3rd c.AD+
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | boēthos1×βοηθός | boēthas | boēthem | boēthois | boēthais | boētheim |
| object accusative | boēthon | boēthan | boēthoin | boēthain | ||
| direct address vocative | boēthor | boēthar | boēthoir | boēthair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | boēthou | boēthau | boētheu | boēthoiu | boēthaiu | boētheiu |
| to, for dative | boētho | boētha | boēthe | boēthoi | boēthai | boēthei |
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
boēth 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
boēthos“helper”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 13:6hōste tharrarōntoin nin legarō; Kurios mi boēthos, ouk fobimi; tinem poiati mi anthrōpos?… with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What …