βοηθός
helper
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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G998 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Hebrews 1 verse
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.
βοηθος — transliterated boēthós — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “helper.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Hebrews (100% of all occurrences). Found nowhere else but Hebrews 13:6. From the same root come βοη, βοηθεια and βοηθεω. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G998 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
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 1 distinct verse.
- Hebrews 1 verse · 100%
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: Helper 1×
- American Standard Version: Helper 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Helper 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Helper 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G998 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G998 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G998 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G998 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- a helper
Word origin
Derived from βοη (boḗ) (G995) — cry.
From G995 and θέω theō (to run ); a succorer : - helper.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G998, 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
Derived from this word
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βοηθος appears 47 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 47 verses in 13 books.
- 47
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 47
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:18 βοηθός
- Exodus 15:2 βοηθός
- Deuteronomy 33:7 βοηθός
- 1 Samuel 7:12 βοηθός
- 2 Samuel 22:42 βοηθός
- 1 Chronicles 12:19 βοηθός
- Ezra 10:15 βοηθός
- Job 22:25 βοηθός
- Psalms 9:10 βοηθός
- Isaiah 17:10 βοηθός
- Lamentations 1:7 βοηθός
- Ezekiel 12:14 βοηθός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G998) 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.
- Genesis 2:18 βοηθός Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 2:20 βοηθός The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
- Exodus 15:2 βοηθός Yah is my strength and song, He has become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
- Exodus 18:4 βοηθός The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."
- Deuteronomy 33:7 βοηθός This is [the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah, Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself; You shall be a help against his adversaries.
- Deuteronomy 33:26 βοηθός There is none like God, Jeshurun, Who rides on the heavens for your help, In his excellency on the skies.
- Deuteronomy 33:29 βοηθός Happy are you, Israel: Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, The shield of your help, The sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall submit themselves to you; You shall tread on their high places.
- 1 Samuel 7:12 βοηθός Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.
- 2 Samuel 22:42 βοηθός They looked, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.
- 1 Chronicles 12:19 βοηθός Of Manasseh also there fell away some to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they didn't help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, He will fall away to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
- Ezra 10:15 βοηθός Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this [matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
- Job 22:25 βοηθός The Almighty will be your treasure, Precious silver to you.
- Job 29:12 βοηθός Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.
- Psalms 9:10 βοηθός Those who know your name will put their trust in you, For you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
- Psalms 9:35 βοηθός
- Psalms 17:3 βοηθός You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and found nothing; I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
- Psalms 18:15 βοηθός Then the channels of waters appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
- Psalms 26:9 βοηθός Don't gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
- Psalms 27:7 βοηθός Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.
- Psalms 29:11 βοηθός Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
- Psalms 32:20 βοηθός
- Psalms 39:18 βοηθός
- Psalms 45:2 βοηθός You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, Therefore God has blessed you forever.
- Psalms 51:9 βοηθός Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all of my iniquities.
- Psalms 58:18 βοηθός
- Psalms 61:9 βοηθός
- Psalms 62:8 βοηθός Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
- Psalms 69:6 βοηθός Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Hosts. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
- Psalms 70:7 βοηθός
- Psalms 71:12 βοηθός God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
- Psalms 77:35 βοηθός
- Psalms 80:2 βοηθός Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
- Psalms 93:22 βοηθός
- Psalms 113:17 βοηθός
- Psalms 113:18 βοηθός
- Psalms 113:19 βοηθός
- Psalms 117:6 βοηθός
- Psalms 117:7 βοηθός
- Psalms 118:114 βοηθός
- Psalms 145:5 βοηθός Of the glorious majesty of your honor, Of your wondrous works, I will meditate.
- Isaiah 17:10 βοηθός For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips.
- Isaiah 25:4 βοηθός For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the wall.
- Isaiah 50:7 βοηθός For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
- Isaiah 63:5 βοηθός I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.
- Lamentations 1:7 βοηθός Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
- Ezekiel 12:14 βοηθός I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
- Nahum 3:9 βοηθός Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G998) 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.
