Quick Definition
assistance, a help
Strong's Definition
aid; specially, a rope or chain for frapping a vessel
Derivation: from G998 (βοηθός);
KJV Usage: help
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βοήθεια, βοηθείας, ἡ (see βοηθέω), help: Heb_4:16 (often in the Sept., chiefly for ςΖζΐψΘδ and ςΕζΖψ; in Greek writings from Thucydides and Xenophon down); plural helps: Act_27:17 (see Hackett at the passage; B. D. under the word Ship 4; Smith, Voyage and Shipwr. of St. Paul, pp. 106f, 204f; cf. ὑποζώννυμι).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βοήθεια boētheia 2x
help, succor, Heb_4:16 ; meton. pl. helps, contrivances for relief and safety, Act_27:17
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βοήθεια , -ας , ἡ
( see βοηθέω ),
[in LXX for H5828 , etc.;]
help: Heb_4:16 ; pl ., helps, " frapping ," a technical nautical term ( MM , Exp ., x; DB , ext., 367): Act_27:17 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βοήθεια [page 113]
The word is perpetually recurring at the end of petitions. P Par 35 .38 (B.C. 163) τούτου δὲ γενομένου ἔσομαι τετευχὼς τῆς παρ᾽ ὑμῶν βοηθείας , BGU I. 226 .23 (A.D. 99) πρὸς τὸ τυχῖν με τῆς ἀπὸ σοῦ βοηθείας , ib. 340 .27 (A.D. 148 9) ἀναγκέως ἐπὶ τὴ̣ ν σὴν βοήθιαν κατέφυγον , P Gen I. 6 .16 (A.D. 146) ἵνα δυνηθῶ ἐκ τῆς σῆς βοηθείας κομίσασθαι τὸ ἴδιον , and P Oxy X. 1272 .22 (A.D. 144) ἵνα δυνηθῶ τῇ σῇ βοηθείᾳ ἀνευρεῖν τὰ ἡμέτερα . A slightly different technical meaning is found in a restoration by Mitteis of P Oxy VII. 1020 .5 (A.D. 198 201) εἰ τὴν ἐκ τῆς ἡλικίας ἔχεις β̣[οήθιαν , if you can claim the assistance due to immature age, = aetatis auxilium , for which the code of Justinian is quoted (Ed.). More ordinary, though still in a petition, is BGU IV. 1201 .12 (A.D. 2) καὶ ἡμῶν ἀνακράξαντες (for -άντων ) εἰς τὴν κώμην πρὸς βοήθηαν . On the phrase βοηθείαις ἐχρῶντο in Act_27:17 see a note by Nestle in ZNTW viii. p. 75 f., where for β . = supports he quotes Philo De Josepho § 33 (ed. Cohn = II. 46 M.) ὥσπερ γὰρ κυβερνήτης ταῖς τῶν πνευμάτων μεταβολαῖς συμμεταβάλλει τὰς πρὸς εὔπλοιαν βοηθείας = verwendetcn Stόtzen. For the interchange of ο and οι in this and similar words, see Mayser Gr . p. 110.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
βοήθεια [Etym: From βοηθητέος] "help, aid, rescue, support", Thuc. , etc. "medical aid, cure", Plut. "an auxiliary force", βοήθεια Thuc. , Xen.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
βοήθεια, -ας, ἡ (see: βοηθέω),
[in LXX for עֵזֶר, etc. ;]
help: Heb.4:16; pl., helps, "frapping," a technical nautical term (MM, Exp., x; DB, ext., 367): Act.27:17.†
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