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βοηθός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βοηθός

Structure: βοηθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: shortened form of bohqo/os

Sense

  1. assisting, auxiliary, an assistant

Examples

  • Καὶ εἶπε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ. οὐ καλὸν εἶναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον μόνον. ποιήσωμεν αὐτῷ βοηθὸν κατ̓ αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 2:18)
  • σὺ ἐποίησασ Ἀδὰμ καὶ ἔδωκασ αὐτῷ βοηθὸν Εὔαν στήριγμα τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ. ἐκ τούτων ἐγεννήθη τὸ ἀνθρώπων σπέρμα. σὺ εἶπασ. οὐ καλὸν εἶναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον μόνον, ποιήσωμεν αὐτῷ βοηθὸν ὅμοιον αὐτῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 8:6)
  • καὶ ἔδωκασ γυναῖκασ αὐτῶν εἰσ προνομὴν καὶ θυγατέρασ εἰσ αἰχμαλωσίαν καὶ πάντα τὰ σκῦλα εἰσ διαίρεσιν υἱῶν ἠγαπημένων ὑπὸ σοῦ, οἳ καὶ ἐζήλωσαν τὸν ζῆλόν σου καὶ ἐβδελύξαντο μίασμα αἵματοσ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπεκαλέσαντό σε εἰσ βοηθόν. ὁ Θεὸσ ὁ Θεὸσ ὁ ἐμόσ, καὶ εἰσάκουσον ἐμοῦ τῆσ χήρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 9:4)
  • λ Κύριέ μου, βασιλεὺσ ἡμῶν σὺ εἶ μόνοσ. βοήθησόν μοι τῇ μόνῃ καὶ μὴ ἐχούσῃ βοηθὸν εἰ μὴ σέ, ὅτι κίνδυνόσ μου ἐν χειρί μου. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 4:27)

Synonyms

  1. assisting

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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