Greek verb · G997
βοηθέω
boetheobo-ay-theh'-o
to help
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: boēthéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G997is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G997
to aid or relieve
The King James renders it: help, succor.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
boetheo is rendered "to help". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 15:25The woman came and knelt before Him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
The woman came and knelt before Him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
Matthew 15:25βοήθει
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in Mark.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- do help5
- gave help1
- I helped1
- to help1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- βοήθει2
- βοήθησον2
- βοηθεῖτε1
- βοηθῆσαι.¶1
- ἐβοήθησά1
- ἐβοήθησεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular2V-AAM-2S
- verb · present active, command · 2nd person singular2V-PAM-2S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AAI-1S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
- verb · present active, command · 2nd person plural1V-PAM-2P
Matthew
one use
The woman came and knelt before Him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
- βοήθειboetheiverb · present active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do help
Mark
two uses
“It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
- βοήθησονboethesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do help
Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”
- βοήθειboetheiverb · present active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do help
Acts
two uses
During the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and pleading with him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
- βοήθησονboethesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do help
crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
- βοηθεῖτεboetheiteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do help
2 Corinthians
one use
For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!
- ἐβοήθησάeboethesaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I helped
Hebrews
one use
Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.
- βοηθῆσαι.¶boethesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to help
Revelation
one use
But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that had poured from the dragon’s mouth.
- ἐβοήθησενeboethesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: gave help
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.