עֶזְרָה
help
also: succour, assistance fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
18 distinct verses where H5833 appears in the Construct state, across 6 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Judges 1 verse
Job 2 verses
Psalms 12 verses
- Psalms 22:19 לְ/עֶזְרָ֥תִ/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.
- Psalms 27:9 עֶזְרָתִ֥/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, Neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
- Psalms 35:2 בְּ/עֶזְרָתִֽ/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
- Psalms 38:22 לְ/עֶזְרָתִ֑/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
- Psalms 40:13 לְ/עֶזְרָ֥תִ/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
- Psalms 40:17 עֶזְרָתִ֣/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs But I am poor and needy; May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.
- Psalms 44:26 עֶזְרָ֣תָ/ה n c fs cs + sfx h Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake.
- Psalms 60:11 עֶזְרָ֣ת n c fs cs Give us help against the adversary, For the help of man is vain.
- Psalms 63:7 עֶזְרָ֣תָ/ה n c fs cs + sfx h For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.
- Psalms 70:1 לְ/עֶזְרָ֥תִ/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
- Psalms 71:12 לְ/עֶזְרָ֥תִ/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
- Psalms 108:12 עֶזְרָ֣ת n c fs cs Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.
Isaiah 1 verse
Lamentations 1 verse
Nahum 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.
The Hebrew noun עזרה centers on the idea of “help.” Psalms dominates its distribution — 14 of 25 verses. Spanning 25 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Judges 5:23. Beyond “help” it also covers “succour” and “assistance” — see its full sense range. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5833 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 →
- 25
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 25 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,251
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,251 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 25 occurrences in the concordance →
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 25 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 18 verses · 72%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 28%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Help 17×, Thou hast been my help 2×
- American Standard Version†: Help 12×, Make haste to help 2×, Thou hast been my help 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Help 11×, Help me 5×, Aid 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Help 16×, Aid of 2×, Helper 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5833 across 26† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5833 across 26† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 H5833 across 26† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H5833 across 26† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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
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 4 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.
עזרה I help, succour, assistance
- 1. help, succour Is 10:3; 20:6 (+ לְהִנָּצֵל), 31:1; Je 37:7;La 4:17; Jb 6:13; 2 Ch 28:21; ע׳ פֹּעֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן Is 31:2 help from, etc.; ע׳ י׳ Ju 5:23(×2) help of (for) י׳; from י׳ ψ 22:20, 38:23; 40:14 (‖ לְהַצִּילֵנִי), 70:2 (‖ id.), 71:12, + מִצָּ֑ר 60:13 (‖ תְּשׁוּעָה) = 108:13. e.g. Isaiah 10:3
- 2. concr., embodied help, one who helps (cf. i. עֵזֶר 2):
- a. coll. Jb 31:21 when I saw my help (assistance, support) in the gate; בְּע׳ (v. i. עֵזֶר 2) Na 3:9. e.g. Job 31:21
- b. of י׳ ψ 27:9; 40:18 (+ מְפַלֵּט), 46:2 (‖ מַחֲסֶה, עֹז), 44:27; 63:8; 94:17; בְּע׳ 35:2. e.g. Psalms 27:9
עזרה II m. Εσρει, Ιεζραα, in Judah 1 Ch 4
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
I. n.f. help, succour, assistance;—abs. ע׳ Is 10:3 +, עֶזְרָת ψ 60:13; 108:13 (Ges§ 80 g), עֶזְרָ֫תָה ψ 63:8 + 2 times; cstr. עֶזְרַת Is 31:2 +; sf. עֶזְרָתִי ψ 22:20 +, etc.;—
II. n.pr.m. Εσρει, Ιεζραα, in Judah 1 Ch 4:17.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עזר (ʻêzer) (H5828) — helper.
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.
עֶזְרָה I
- pr. n. m., v. עֶזְרָא
עֶזְרָה II
- help. Taan. III, 7 (19ᵃ) לע׳ ולא לצעקה (you may blow the alarm on the Sabbath to summon people) for help, but not for prayer. Kidd. 6ᵃ עֶזְרָתִי מהו (if one says to a woman) ‘be my help’, how is it (is she betrothed)?, v. עֵזֶר.
עֲזָרָה
- enclosure, esp. Temple court. Midd. I, 4 שבעה שערים היו בע׳ the Temple court had seven gates. Ib. II, 5 עֶזְרַת הנשים the women’s compartment in the Temple court; עזרת ישראל the men’s compartment (for non-priests). Ib. 6 כל הע׳ וכ׳ the whole ʿĂzarah was one hundred and seventy five cubits long &c.; a. v. fr.—ספר הע׳ the copy of the Torah used in the Temple court. M. Kat. III, 4 (18ᵇ) ספר הע׳ (Var. עזרא the copy deposited by Ezra). B. Bath. 14ᵇ top. Kel. XV, 6; a. fr.
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 16 distinct written forms H5833 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5833, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- עזר ʻÊzer H5829 Ezer
- עזרי ʻEzrîy H5836 Ezri
- עזריאל ʻAzrîyʼêl H5837 Azriel
- עזריקם ʻAzrîyqâm H5840 Azrikam
- עזרא ʻEzrâʼ H5830 Ezra
- עזרה ʻEzrâh H5834 Ezra
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 6 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 19 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 25 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
- Judges 5:23
- 2 Chronicles 28:21
- Job 6:13
- Psalms 27:9
- Isaiah 10:3
- Jeremiah 37:7
- Lamentations 4:17
- Nahum 3:9
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.
