Quick Definition
to help
Strong's Definition
to surround, i.e. protect or aid
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: help, succour.
TWOT Reference: 1598
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָזַר (a.zar) — to help. 1) to help, succour, support 1a) (Qal) to help 1b) (Niphal) to be helped 1c) (Hiphil) to help
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · עֵזֶר · עֲזָרָה · עֶזְרָה · יַעְזֵר · עֵזֶר · עֶזְרָא · עֲזַרְאֵל · עֶזְרָה · עֶזְרִי · עֲזַרְיָה
Safe | verb nif
to be helped, to receive help = process by which humans receive assistance or supported from other humans or deities
Safe | verb qal, verb hif
to help, to assist, to support = action by which humans or deities provide assistance or support to (other) humans ► in order to make their life, work, task or situation easier (1) When verb has a human subject, it is often used in a military or political-national context, which connects with the substantive uses of the verb to refer to allies: 'helper'/'ally'. (2) Is also used in a socio-legal context, with both human and divine subjects, to refer to the activity of protecting or defending someone as 'defender'.
GEN 49:25 · DEU 32:38 · JOS 1:14 · JOS 10:4 · JOS 10:6 · JOS 10:33 · 1SA 7:12 · 2SA 8:5 · 2SA 18:3 · 2SA 21:17 · 1KI 1:7 · 1KI 20:16 · 2KI 14:26 · 1CH 12:1 · 1CH 12:18 · 1CH 12:19 · 1CH 12:19 · 1CH 12:20 · 1CH 12:22 · 1CH 12:23 · 1CH 15:26 · 1CH 18:5 · 1CH 22:17 · 2CH 14:10 · 2CH 14:10 · 2CH 18:31 · 2CH 19:2 · 2CH 20:23 · 2CH 25:8 · 2CH 26:7 · 2CH 26:13 · 2CH 28:16 · 2CH 28:23 · 2CH 28:23 · 2CH 32:3 · 2CH 32:8 · EZR 8:22 · EZR 10:15 · JOB 9:13 · JOB 26:2 · JOB 29:12 · JOB 30:13 · PSA 10:14 · PSA 22:12 · PSA 30:11 · PSA 37:40 · PSA 46:6 · PSA 54:6 · PSA 72:12 · PSA 79:9 · PSA 86:17 · PSA 107:12 · PSA 109:26 · PSA 118:7 · PSA 118:13 · PSA 119:86 · PSA 119:173 · PSA 119:175 · ISA 30:7 · ISA 31:3 · ISA 31:3 · ISA 41:6 · ISA 41:10 · ISA 41:13 · ISA 41:14 · ISA 44:2 · ISA 49:8 · ISA 50:7 · ISA 50:9 · ISA 63:5 · JER 47:4 · LAM 1:7 · EZK 30:8 · EZK 32:21 · DAN 10:13 · DAN 11:45 · ZEC 1:15
1 2SA 18:3 MT-K לעזיר | MT-Q לַעְזֹור
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עָזַר] 82 vb. help, succour Qal help
Niph. I am helped
Hiph. v. Qal.
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