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Koine Greek wordlink #141575

SR GNT Heb 2:18 βοηθῆσαι (boaʸthaʸsai) ‘he is able to the ones being tempted to give_help’ Strongs=9970 Lemma=boētheō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form βοηθῆσαι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘βοηθῆσαι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to give_help’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘boētheō’ have 5 different glosses: ‘be giving_help’, ‘to give_help’, ‘I gave_help’, ‘gave_help’, ‘give_help’.

Greek words (3) other than βοηθῆσαι (V-NAA····) with a gloss related to ‘give_help’

MARK 9:22 βοήθησον (boaʸthaʸson) V-MAA2··S ‘if anything you are being_able give_help to us having_been feeling_compassion on’ SR GNT Mark 9:22 word 24

OET-LV: 22 And often it _throw him both into fire and into waters in _order _that it _may _destroy him. But if anything you _are _being _able, give _help to _us, having _been _feeling _compassion on us. (MRK_9:22)

OET-RV: 22 “and often it throws him into the fire or into water to try to destroy him. But if you feel sorry for us and can do it, please help us.” (MRK 9:22)

LUKE 5:7 συλλαβέσθαι (sullabesthai) V-NAM···· Lemma=sullambanō ‘other boat having come to give_help to them and they came’ SR GNT Luke 5:7 word 16

OET-LV: 7 And they _signaled to _the companions in the other boat, which having _come to _give _help to _them, and they _came, and they _filled both the boats, so _that them to _be _being _sunk. (LUK_5:7)

OET-RV: 7 and they had to signal to their companions in the other boat to come and help. When they got there, they filled both boats with so many fish that the weight began to sink them. (LUK 5:7)

ACTs 16:9 βοήθησον (boaʸthaʸson) V-MAA2··S ‘having passed_through into Makedonia give_help to us’ SR GNT Acts 16:9 word 31

OET-LV: 9 And through the_night a_vision was _seen to_ the _Paulos, a_ Certain from _Makedonia _man was having _stood and imploring him and saying: Having _passed _through into Makedonia, give _help to _us. (ACT_16:9)

OET-RV: 9 During the night, Paul had a vision of a Macedonian man standing there and imploring him, “Come on to Macedonia and help us here.” (ACT 16:9)

Key: V=verb