βοήθεια
help
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G996 appears in the Book of Acts — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“help” is the headline sense of the Greek noun βοηθεια (boḗtheia). The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. First canonically at Acts 27:17, it enters the text early. From the same root come βοηθος and βοηθεω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G996 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Help 1×, Helps 1×
- American Standard Version: Help 1×, Helps 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Help 1×, Ropes 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Help 1×, Helps 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G996 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G996 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G996 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G996 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- help
Word origin
Derived from βοηθος (boēthós) (G998) — helper.
From G998 ; aid ; specifically a rope or chain for frapping a vessel : - help.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G996 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βοήθειαν boḗtheian | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 4:16 | 1 |
| βοηθείαις boētheíais | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 27:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G996, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βοηθεια appears 41 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 40 verses in 11 books.
- 41
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 40
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 5:23 βοήθεια
- 2 Samuel 18:3 βοήθεια
- 1 Chronicles 12:17 βοήθεια
- 2 Chronicles 28:21 βοήθεια
- Esther 4:14 βοήθεια
- Job 6:13 βοήθεια
- Psalms 7:11 βοήθεια
- Proverbs 21:31 βοήθεια
- Isaiah 8:20 βοήθεια
- Jeremiah 16:19 βοήθεια
- Lamentations 3:57 βοήθεια
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G996) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 5:23 βοήθεια Curse you Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh. Curse you bitterly the inhabitants of it, Because they didn't come to the help of Yahweh, To the help of Yahweh against the mighty.
- 2 Samuel 18:3 βοήθεια But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.
- 1 Chronicles 12:17 βοήθεια David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if [you be come] to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
- 2 Chronicles 28:21 βοήθεια For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Yahweh, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria: but it didn't help him.
- Esther 4:14 βοήθεια For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish: and who knows whether you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
- Job 6:13 βοήθεια Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
- Job 31:21 βοήθεια If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:
- Psalms 7:11 βοήθεια God is a righteous judge, Yes, a God who has indignation every day.
- Psalms 19:3 βοήθεια There is no speech nor language, Where their voice is not heard.
- Psalms 21:20 βοήθεια
- Psalms 34:2 βοήθεια My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
- Psalms 37:23 βοήθεια A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
- Psalms 48:15 βοήθεια
- Psalms 59:13 βοήθεια Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. Selah.
- Psalms 61:8 βοήθεια So I will sing praise to your name forever, That I may fulfill my vows daily.
- Psalms 69:2 βοήθεια I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- Psalms 70:12 βοήθεια
- Psalms 88:20 βοήθεια
- Psalms 88:44 βοήθεια
- Psalms 90:1 βοήθεια Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
- Psalms 107:13 βοήθεια Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses.
- Psalms 120:1 βοήθεια In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
- Psalms 120:2 βοήθεια Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, From a deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 123:8 βοήθεια
- Proverbs 21:31 βοήθεια The horse is prepared for the day of battle; But victory is with Yahweh.
- Proverbs 24:6 βοήθεια For by wise guidance you wage your war; And victory is in many advisors.
- Proverbs 28:12 βοήθεια When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
- Isaiah 8:20 βοήθεια To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
- Isaiah 20:6 βοήθεια The inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?
- Isaiah 30:5 βοήθεια They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- Isaiah 30:6 βοήθεια The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].
- Isaiah 30:32 βοήθεια Every stroke of the appointed staff, which Yahweh shall lay on him, shall be with [the sound of] tambourines and harps; and in battles with the brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them.
- Isaiah 31:1 βοήθεια Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Yahweh!
- Isaiah 31:3 βοήθεια Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
- Isaiah 47:15 βοήθεια Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
- Jeremiah 16:19 βοήθεια Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
- Jeremiah 29:4 βοήθεια Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:
- Jeremiah 44:7 βοήθεια Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why commit you [this] great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;
- Lamentations 3:57 βοήθεια You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.
- Lamentations 4:17 βοήθεια Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G996) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
