helper, rescue, counterpart
helper, rescue, counterpart. Help, vital rescuer; applied to woman as corresponding counterpart to man (ezer kenegdo, Genesis 2:18), and to God as Israel's sole deliverer.
to draw out, deliver, equip for war
to draw out, deliver, equip for war. To pull off, draw out, rescue from distress; used of God delivering righteous from affliction ('He delivers the afflicted', Job 36:15).
salvation, deliverance, victory
salvation, deliverance, victory. Salvation, rescue, triumph over enemies; celebrated in Song of Sea ('The LORD has become my salvation', Exodus 15:2) and Isaiah.
to save, deliver, liberate, give victory
to save, deliver, liberate, give victory. To bring into wide open space, rescue from distress, deliver in battle; divine prerogative ('salvation belongs to the LORD', Psalm 3:8). Root of Yeshua/Jesus.
low, poor, helpless, weak
low, poor, helpless, weak. Thin, lean, reduced in strength or resources; legal protection mandated in courts against bribery (Exodus 23:3).
Job • Chapter 26 (14 verses)
But Job answered and said, How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
Isaiah • Chapter 31 (9 verses)
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel , neither seek the Lord! Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will no... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Egypt , Zion , Jerusalem .
Psalms • Chapter 70 (5 verses)
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
Psalms • Chapter 46 (11 verses)
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling the... Mentions: Jacob/Israel .
Psalms • Chapter 3 (8 verses)
Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Psalms • Chapter 20 (9 verses)
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion ; Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Zion .
Isaiah • Chapter 50 (11 verses)
Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. Wherefore, when I came, was...
Isaiah • Chapter 44 (28 verses)
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel , whom I have chosen: Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and fl... Mentions: Jacob/Israel, Judah , Jerusalem .
2 Chronicles • Chapter 19 (11 verses)
And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem . And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat , Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the L... Mentions: Jehoshaphat, Judah , Ephraim , Jacob/Israel , Amariah , Jerusalem .
Philippians • Chapter 4 (23 verses)
Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Macedonia , Thessalonica .
1 Chronicles • Chapter 12 (40 verses)
Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag , while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish : and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war. They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrow... Mentions: David , Saul , Kish , Benjamin , Joash , Ziklag , Azmaveth , Gedor 1 , Jordan , Hebron .
Ezekiel • Chapter 19 (14 verses)
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel , And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Egypt , Babylon .
Psalms • Chapter 12 (8 verses)
Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud ...
Psalms • Chapter 22 (31 verses)
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel . Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Bashan .
to judge, plead cause, contend, govern
to judge, plead cause, contend, govern. To act as judge, champion the cause of the oppressed, vindicate the helpless ('The LORD will judge His people', Deuteronomy 32:36).
Psalms • Chapter 35 (28 verses)
Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Psalms • Chapter 121 (8 verses)
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Mentions: Jacob/Israel .
The First Book of the Maccabees • Chapter 14 (49 verses)
And in the hundred and seventy and second year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media , to get him help, that he might fight against Tryphon. And Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media , heard that Demetrius was come into his borders, and he sent one of hi... Mentions: Simon , Jacob/Israel , Jonathan , Judas , Mattathias , Media, Persia , Joppa , Rome , Jerusalem .
The First Book of the Maccabees • Chapter 3 (60 verses)
And his son Judas , who was called Maccabaeus, rose up in his stead. And all his brethren helped him, and so did all they that clave to his father, and they fought with gladness the battle of Israel . And he got his people great glory, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girde... Mentions: Judas , Jacob/Israel , Judah , Samaria , Syria , Persia , Euphrates , Egypt .
Psalms • Chapter 146 (10 verses)
Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Zion .
to have deep compassion, love tenderly
to have deep compassion, love tenderly. To love deeply from the womb (rechem), cherish tenderly, exercise paternal/maternal compassion toward helpless children (Psalm 103:13).
The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus • Chapter 51 (30 verses)
I will give thanks to you, O Lord, O King, And will praise you, O God my Saviour: I do give thanks to your name: For you were my protector and helper, And did deliver my body out of destruction, And out of the snare of a slanderous tongue, From lips that forge lies, And was my he...
wickedness, iniquity, lawlessness
wickedness, iniquity, lawlessness. Unrighteousness, moral lawlessness, civil injustice, oppression of the poor and helpless.
2 Chronicles • Chapter 25 (28 verses)
Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem . And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem . And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart. Now it came to pass, when the... Mentions: Amaziah , Moses , Judah , Benjamin , Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem, Ephraim , Seir , Samaria , Lebanon .
2 Chronicles • Chapter 20 (37 verses)
It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab , and the children of Ammon , and with them other beside the Ammonites , came against Jehoshaphat to battle. Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat , saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea... Mentions: Moab , Ammon , Ammonites , Jehoshaphat, Judah , Syria , Jerusalem , Seir .
2 Corinthians • Chapter 1 (24 verses)
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth , with all the saints which are in all Achaia : Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the Father of... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah, Corinth , Achaia , Asia , Macedonia .
Psalms • Chapter 54 (7 verses)
Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Acts • Chapter 16 (40 verses)
Then came he to Derbe and Lystra : and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium . Him would Paul have to... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Derbe , Lystra, Iconium , Jerusalem , Phrygia .
Luke • Chapter 5 (39 verses)
And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret , And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Sim... Mentions: Simon , Yeshua the Messiah , James ( Jacob ), Moses , Levi , Gennesaret , Galilee , Jerusalem .
Psalms • Chapter 42 (11 verses)
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? Mentions: Jordan .
3 John • Chapter 1 (14 verses)
The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest...