עָזַר
ʻâzar · aw-zar'
to surround, i.e. protect or aid
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to surround, i.e. protect or aid
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: help, succour.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest
To see and know that works to cut, to sustain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָזַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
81 occurrences · 81 OT · 0 NT · 69 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to help10 · 18%
- helped9 · 16%
- help7 · 13%
- shall help3 · 5%
- helpers2 · 4%
- that thou succour2 · 4%
- will help2 · 4%
- and help2 · 4%
- and they helped2 · 4%
- and there was none to help2 · 4%
- to succour1 · 2%
- shouldest thou help1 · 2%
- us, and help1 · 2%
- succoured1 · 2%
- unto me, and help1 · 2%
- but they helped1 · 2%
- helpeth1 · 2%
- be to thine helpers1 · 2%
- unto me to help1 · 2%
- and they were helped1 · 2%
- nor any helper1 · 2%
- it is nothing with thee to help1 · 2%
- that helped1 · 2%
- to them, that they may help1 · 2%
- who shall help1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.