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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 ἔλαβε Σαμουὴλ λίθον ἕνα καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτὸν ἀνὰ μέσον Μασσηφὰθ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῆσ παλαιᾶσ καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἀβενέζερ, Λίθοσ τοῦ βοηθοῦ, καὶ εἶπεν. ἕωσ ἐνταῦθα ἐβοήθησεν ἡμῖν Κύριοσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 7:12)
  • διότι κατέλιπεσ τὸν Θεὸν τὸν σωτῆρά σου καὶ Κυρίου τοῦ βοηθοῦ σου οὐκ ἐμνήσθησ. διὰ τοῦτο φυτεύσεισ φύτευμα ἄπιστον καὶ σπέρμα ἄπιστον. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 17:10)
  • πλημμελούμενοσ δὲ καὶ οὐκ ἐν δίκῃ λοιδορηθεὶσ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἀεὶ δεῖται βοηθοῦ· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 317:7)
  • διὸ δὴ βοηθοῦ δεῖται νόμου. (Plato, Laws, book 8 113:1)
  • Βοηθοῦ παῖσ ἦν οὗτοσ ἐκ τῶν ἀρχιερέων ἐν τοῖσ μάλιστα τῷ δήμῳ πιστὸσ καὶ τίμιοσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 599:2)

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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