עָזַר
to help
also: succour, support fuller range ↓
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘dub.’
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 23 distinct
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 17 times (21%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 15 times (18%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 5 times (6%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 5 times (6%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct 5 times (6%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 5 times (6%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 4 times (5%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 4 times (5%)
+15 more forms (22 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 82 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5826 appears — 77 distinct verses across 18 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 4 verses
- Joshua 1:14 וַ/עֲזַרְתֶּ֖ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them;
- Joshua 10:4 וְ/עִזְרֻ֔/נִי conj + Qal impv 2mp + sfx pers 1cs Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
- Joshua 10:6 וְ/עָזְרֵ֔/נוּ conj + Qal impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cp The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
- Joshua 10:33 לַ/עְזֹ֖ר prep + Qal inf.cs Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Samuel 3 verses
- 2 Samuel 8:5 לַ/עְזֹ֕ר prep + Qal inf.cs When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
- 2 Samuel 18:3 ל/עזיר לַ/עְזֽוֹר prep + Hiphil inf.cs prep + Qal inf.cs 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.
- 2 Samuel 21:17 וַ/יַּֽעֲזָר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel.
1 Kings 2 verses
- 1 Kings 1:7 וַֽ/יַּעְזְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
- 1 Kings 20:16 עֹזֵ֥ר Qal ptcp.act ms They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.
2 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 10 verses
- 1 Chronicles 5:20 וַ/יֵּעָזְר֣וּ conj + Niphal wimpf 3mp They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
- 1 Chronicles 12:1 עֹזְרֵ֖י Qal ptcp.act mp cs Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
- 1 Chronicles 12:17 לְ/עָזְרֵ֔/נִי prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs 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.
- 1 Chronicles 12:18 לְ/עֹ֣זְרֶ֔/ךָ עֲזָרְ/ךָ֖ prep + Qal ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, [and he said], "We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse: peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you." Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
- 1 Chronicles 12:19 עֲזָרֻ֑/ם Qal pf 3cp + sfx pers 3mp 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.
- 1 Chronicles 12:21 עָזְר֤וּ Qal pf 3cp They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the host.
- 1 Chronicles 12:22 לְ/עָזְר֑/וֹ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great host, like the host of God.
- 1 Chronicles 15:26 בֶּ/עְזֹ֣ר prep + Qal inf.cs It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
- 1 Chronicles 18:5 לַ/עְז֕וֹר prep + Qal inf.cs When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 22:17 לַ/עְזֹ֖ר prep + Qal inf.cs David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, [saying],
2 Chronicles 12 verses
- 2 Chronicles 14:11 לַ/עְזוֹר֙ עָזְרֵ֜/נוּ prep + Qal inf.cs Qal impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cp Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength: help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God; don't let man prevail against you.
- 2 Chronicles 18:31 עֲזָר֔/וֹ Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.
- 2 Chronicles 19:2 לַ/עְזֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? for this thing wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 20:23 עָזְר֥וּ Qal pf 3cp For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.
- 2 Chronicles 25:8 לַ/עְז֥וֹר prep + Qal inf.cs But if you will go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle: God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to cast down.
- 2 Chronicles 26:7 וַ/יַּעְזְרֵ֨/הוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.
- 2 Chronicles 26:13 לַ/עְזֹ֥ר prep + Qal inf.cs Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
- 2 Chronicles 26:15 לְ/הֵעָזֵ֖ר prep + Niphal inf.cs He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.
- 2 Chronicles 28:16 לַ/עְזֹ֥ר prep + Qal inf.cs At that time did king Ahaz send to the kings of Assyria to help him.
- 2 Chronicles 28:23 מַעְזְרִ֣ים וְ/יַעְזְר֑וּ/נִי Hiphil ptcp.act mp conj + Hiphil impf 3mp + sfx pers 1cs For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which struck him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 32:3 וַֽ/יַּעְזְרֽוּ/הוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp + sfx pers 3ms he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.
- 2 Chronicles 32:8 לְ/עָזְרֵ֔/נוּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cp with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our God to help us, and to fight our battles. The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Ezra 2 verses
- Ezra 8:22 לְ/עָזְרֵ֥/נוּ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cp For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.
- Ezra 10:15 עֲזָרֻֽ/ם Qal pf 3cp + sfx pers 3mp 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 4 verses
- Job 9:13 עֹ֣זְרֵי Qal ptcp.act mp cs "God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
- Job 26:2 עָזַ֥רְתָּ Qal pf 2ms "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
- Job 29:12 עֹזֵ֥ר Qal ptcp.act ms Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.
- Job 30:13 עֹזֵ֣ר Qal ptcp.act ms They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Without anyone's help.
Psalms 17 verses
- Psalms 10:14 עוֹזֵֽר Qal ptcp.act ms But you do see trouble and grief; You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
- Psalms 22:11 עוֹזֵֽר Qal ptcp.act ms Don't be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is none to help.
- Psalms 28:7 וְֽ/נֶ֫עֱזָ֥רְתִּי conj + Niphal pf 1cs Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
- Psalms 30:10 עֹזֵ֥ר Qal ptcp.act ms Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."
- Psalms 37:40 וַֽ/יַּעְזְרֵ֥/ם conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
- Psalms 46:5 יַעְזְרֶ֥/הָ Qal impf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
- Psalms 54:4 עֹזֵ֣ר Qal ptcp.act ms Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
- Psalms 72:12 עֹזֵ֥ר Qal ptcp.act ms For he will deliver the needy when he cries; The poor, who has no helper.
- Psalms 79:9 עָזְרֵ֤/נוּ Qal impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cp Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
- Psalms 86:17 עֲזַרְתַּ֥/נִי Qal pf 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Show me a sign of your goodness, That those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, Because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
- Psalms 107:12 עֹזֵֽר Qal ptcp.act ms Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help.
- Psalms 109:26 עָ֭זְרֵ/נִי Qal impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;
- Psalms 118:7 בְּ/עֹזְרָ֑/י prep + Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
- Psalms 118:13 עֲזָרָֽ/נִי Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, But Yahweh helped me.
- Psalms 119:86 עָזְרֵֽ/נִי Qal impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
- Psalms 119:173 לְ/עָזְרֵ֑/נִי prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs Let your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen your precepts.
- Psalms 119:175 יַעֲזְרֻֽ/נִי Qal impf 3mp + sfx pers 1cs Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.
Isaiah 11 verses
- Isaiah 30:7 יַעְזֹ֑רוּ Qal impf 3mp For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.
- Isaiah 31:3 עוֹזֵר֙ עָזֻ֔ר Qal ptcp.act ms Qal ptcp.pass ms 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 41:6 יַעְזֹ֑רוּ Qal impf 3mp They help everyone his neighbor; and [every one] says to his brother, Be of good courage.
- Isaiah 41:10 עֲזַרְתִּ֔י/ךָ Qal pf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms Don't you be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
- Isaiah 41:13 עֲזַרְתִּֽי/ךָ Qal pf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Don't be afraid; I will help you.
- Isaiah 41:14 עֲזַרְתִּי/ךְ֙ Qal pf 1cs + sfx pers 2fs Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says Yahweh, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 44:2 יַעְזְרֶ֑/ךָּ Qal impf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms Thus says Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you: Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
- Isaiah 49:8 עֲזַרְתִּ֑י/ךָ Qal pf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms Thus says Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:
- Isaiah 50:7 יַֽעֲזָר Qal impf 3ms 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 50:9 יַֽעֲזָר Qal impf 3ms Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
- Isaiah 63:5 עֹזֵ֔ר Qal ptcp.act ms 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.
Jeremiah 1 verse
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 30:8 עֹזְרֶֽי/הָ Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3fs They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.
- Ezekiel 32:21 עֹֽזְרָ֑י/ו Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3ms The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Daniel 3 verses
- Daniel 10:13 לְ/עָזְרֵ֑/נִי prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
- Daniel 11:34 יֵעָזְר֖וּ Niphal impf 3mp Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.
- Daniel 11:45 עוֹזֵ֖ר Qal ptcp.act ms He shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
Zechariah 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.
At its core, עזר (ʻâzar) means “to help.” First canonically at Genesis 49:25, it enters the text early. With 77 verses in 18 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. As a verb its force shifts by stem, across 3 stems (Qal, Niphal, and more). From the same root come עזר, עזרה and יעזיר. Dig into 77-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5826 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 77
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 77 distinct verses.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #487
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 487 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 77 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 17 verses 22%
- 2 Chronicles 12 verses 16%
- Isaiah 11 verses 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 77 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 49 verses · 64%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 26 verses · 34%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 3%
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 23×, Helped 10×, Shall help 4×
- American Standard Version: Help 14×, Helped 5×, Will help 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Help 11×, Help me 6×, Helper 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Help 11×, Helper 8×, Help me 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5826 across 81 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 31 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5826 across 80 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 45 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5826 across 81 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 31 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5826 across 88 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 35 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. sf. עֲזָרָ֑נִי ψ 118:13, עֲזָֽרְךָ 1 Ch 12:19; 3 pl. sf. עֲזָרֻם 1 Ch 12:20, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יַעֲזָר־ Is 50:7, 9, sf. יַעְזְרֶךָּ Is 44:2; 3 mpl. יַעְזֹ֑רוּ Is 30:7; 41:6, וַיַּעְזְרוּ 1 K 1:7, sf. יַעַזְרֻנִי ψ 119:175, etc.; Imv. ms. sf. עָזְרֵנִי ψ 109:26; 119:86 + Jos 10:4 Kt, mpl. sf. עִזְרֻנִי Qr; etc.; Inf. cstr. לַעֲזֹר 1 Ch 22:17, לַעֲזוֹר 18:5, לַעְזֹר Jos 10:33 + 5 times, לַעְזוֹר 2 Ch 25:8 + 2 S 18:3 Qr (> Kt לַעֲזִיר Hiph.); sf. לְעָזְרֵנִי 1 Ch 12:17 + 2 times, etc.; Pt. act. עֹזֵר 1 K 20:16 +, etc.; pass. עָזֻר Is 31:3;—help, c. acc. pers. 1 K 20:16; Jos 1:14 (D), Is 41:6 + 2 Ch 28:23 reading עֹזְרִים Ges§ 53 o, for MT מַעְזְרִים, appar. Hiph.; subj. false gods); c. acc. loc. (city) Jos 10:33 (D); especially c. sf. pers. Jos 10:4, 6 (+ הוֹשִׁיעַ; both JE), 1 Ch 12:18, 20, 23 (van d. H. v 17, 19, 22), 2 Ch 32:3; Ezr 8:22 (+ מִן of enemy), 10:15; Dn 10:13 (subj. Michael); subj. often God (י׳), c. acc. pers. ψ 10:14; 1 Ch 15:26, usually sf. Gn 49:25 (poem in J), 1 S 7:12; Is 41:10, 13, 14 + 12 times + 2 Ch 26:7 (c. עַל against), ψ 37:40 (+ פִּלֵּט), 46:6 (sf. of city), 109:26 (‖ הוֹשִׁיעַ); subj. false gods Dt 32:8; 2 Ch 28:23; c. לְ pers. 2 S 8:5 + 1 Ch 18:5 + 4 times + 2 S 18:3 (read Qr לַעֲזוֹר, or לְעֹזֵר? cf. HPS); subj. י׳ Is 50:7, 9; c. עִם pers. 1 Ch 12:22 (van d. H. v 21; + עַל against); c. אַחֲרֵי pers. (constr. praegn.) 1 K 1:7; c. בְּ pers. against whom 2 Ch 20:23 (+ inf.); c. בֵּין … לְ, of י׳, 2 Ch 14:10; abs. Is 30:7; 2 Ch 26:13 (+ עַל against), 28:16; ע׳ לְרָעָה Zc 1:15 they helped, with evil result; י׳ subj., 2 Ch 25:8 (opp. הַכְשִׁיל); also pt. c. sf. Ez 30:8 + 3 times; c. לְ pers. 2 K 14:26 + 5 times; of י׳ ψ 30:11; 54:6; abs. Is 31:3; 63:5 Je 47:4 ψ 22:12; 107:12; cstr. עֹזְרֵי הַמִּלְחָמָה 1 Ch 12:1, עֹזְרֵי רָ֑הַב Jb 9:13 (v. רַהַב); Pt. pass. abs. as subst. he who is helped Is 31:3. e.g. Psalms 118:13
Niphal
- Pf. וְנֶעֱזָרְ֑תִּי ψ 28:7 I am helped (sc. by י׳); Impf. 3 mpl. וַיֵּעָֽזְרוּ 1 Ch 5:20 (sc. id.; + עַל against), c. n. cogn. יֵעָֽזְרוּ עֵזֶר מְעָט Dn 11:34; Inf. cstr. הִפְלִיא לְהֵעָזֵר 2 Ch 26:15 he was wonderfully helped (lit. made wonderful to be helped). e.g. Psalms 28:7
Hiphil
- dub.: Inf. cstr. 2 S 18:3 Kt, Pt. pl. מַעְזְרִים 2 Ch 28:23, v. Qal. e.g. 2 Samuel 18:3
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. help, succour (NH n. עֶזְרָה help; Ph. in deriv. and cpds. Lzb338 f.; Arabic عَذَرَ excuse, exculpate, also aid; Aramaic ܥܕܰܪ help, Palm. עדר, rarely עזר Lzb338 Cook89.90);—
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Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָזַר
- [to surround,] to help, protect. Yalk. Num. 759 (play on אל אלעזר, Num. XIX, 3) אל אל עוֹזֵר (give her, i.e. Rome, over) to the helping God (omitted in Pesik. Par., p. 41ᵃ; Pesik. R. s. 14). Yeb. 63ᵃ (ref. to Gen. II, 20) זכה עוֹזַרְתּוֹ וכ׳ if he deserves well, she is a help to him &c., v. next w.—Midr. Till. to Ps. CXXI אתם יודעים מי עוזר אתכם עושה וכ׳ do you know who is your helper? The maker of heaven and earth. Gen. R. s. 44 (ref. to Gen. XV, 2 דמשק אליעזר) שבשבילו רדפתי מלכים עד דמשק וַיְעַזְרֵנִי האל for his (Lot’s) sake I pursued the kings as far as Damascus, and God helped me; a. e. e.g. Numbers 19:3
עֵזֶר
- preced.) help; trnsf. (after Gen. II, 20) helpmate. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XII ועשאה ע׳ וכ׳ (not ועשתה) and he made her a help and placed her opposite him. Ib. משבנה לו ע׳ אשה when he had built for him a helpmate named ishshah. Ib. אם זכה תהיה לו ע׳ וכ׳ if he deserves well, she will be to him a help, if not, an opposition; Gen. R. s. 17, a. e., v. נֶגֶד. Yalk. Gen. 62 לאדם ולעֶזְרוֹ for Adam and his wife; Pirké d’R. El. ch. XX. Ib. ch. XXI אדם ועוזרו (corr. acc.); a. e. e.g. Genesis 2:20
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 70 distinct written forms H5826 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 10 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5826, 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.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יעזיר Yaʻăzêyr H3270 Jazer
- עזור ʻAzzûwr H5809 Azur
- עזר ʻEzer H5827 Ezer
- עזראל ʻĂzarʼêl H5832 Azarael
- עזריה ʻĂzaryâh H5838 Azariah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 69 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 77 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 49:25
- Deuteronomy 32:38
- Joshua 1:14
- 1 Samuel 7:12
- 2 Samuel 8:5
- 1 Kings 1:7
- 2 Kings 14:26
- 1 Chronicles 5:20
- 2 Chronicles 14:11
- Ezra 8:22
- Job 9:13
- Psalms 28:7
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
