עֵזֶר
ʻêzer · ay'-zer
aid
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5826 (עָזַר);
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.
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 עֵזֶר 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
21 occurrences · 21 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- he is their help3 · 14%
- help2 · 10%
- my help2 · 10%
- him an help meet1 · 5%
- an help meet1 · 5%
- said he, was mine help1 · 5%
- for him; and be thou an help1 · 5%
- in thy help1 · 5%
- of thy help1 · 5%
- thee help1 · 5%
- he is our help1 · 5%
- thou art my help1 · 5%
- our help1 · 5%
- for his help1 · 5%
- them, nor be an help1 · 5%
- him to help1 · 5%
- thyself; but in me is thine help1 · 5%
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.