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# עֵזֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5828

**help** — used 21 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

help [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5828/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵ֫זֶר: n.m. help, succour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5828/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 121:1 help, succour;—ע׳ abs. Gn 2:18 +, sf. עֶזְרִי Ex 18:4, עֶזְרֹה Ez 12:14, etc.;— help, succour Is 30:5 (‖ הוֹעִיל, opp. בּשֶׁת, חֶרְפָּה), Dn 11:34; from י׳ ψ 20:3; 121:1, 2; 124:8; in 89:20 read; נֵזֶר for ע׳ Dy Gr Kau (עֹז Bi Che), cf. Hup; מָגֵן עֶזְר֑ךָ Dt 33:29) = י׳). concr. = one who helps (cf. i. עֶזְרָה 2) בְּע׳ (בְּ essent., v. ב I 7 b, Ges§ 119 h, i) Gn 2:18, 20 (J) + Ho 13:9 (read מִי בְע׳ Che We GuKau Now); coll. (without בְּ) Ez 12:14 (si vera l.; Co עֹזְרָיו); especially of י׳ ע׳ מִצָּרָיו Dt 33:7 (poem), ע׳ + מָגֵן ψ 33:20; 115:9, 10, 11, + מְפַלֵּט 70:6; בְּע׳ (v. supr.) Ex 18:4 (E), Dt 33:26 (poem), ψ 146:4. אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶר v. אֶבֶן (9).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: help (15); a helper (2); a help (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 121:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.121.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.121.2/#tree)

עֶ֭זְרִי מֵעִ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה עֹ֝שֵׂ֗ה שָׁמַ֥יִם וָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* help my \[is\].from with Yahweh \[who\].made (of).heaven and earth

*JPS 1917:* My help cometh from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

[Psalms 124:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.124.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.124.8/#tree)

עֶ֭זְרֵנוּ בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה עֹ֝שֵׂ֗ה שָׁמַ֥יִם וָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* help our \[is\].in the.name of.Yahweh \[who\].made (of).heaven and earth

*JPS 1917:* Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5828.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5828/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).