azar · help

What it means

azar (עָזַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “help”.

Come to someone's aid.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To stand beside someone to give him strength or free him from a bind.
2. A person who comes to another's side to help him in what he needs.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To help, come to someone's aid; as a participle, the one who helps, the helper. Of the same root are עֵזֶר, “help”, and names such as Eleazar and Azariah.

• “Until now YHWH has helped us” 1 Samuel 7:12
• The El of your father, “who will help you” Genesis 49:25Psalms 46:5
• “I help you, also I uphold you” Isaiah 41:10
• “Help us”: the plea in war Joshua 10:62 Chronicles 14:11
• “Be my helper” Psalms 30:10Psalms 28:7

Historical and cultural background

Samuel named a stone Eben-ezer (‘stone of the help’), and said: “Until now YHWH has helped us” (1 Samuel 7:12).

How we translate it

“Help” 39 times, “helped” 21, “helps” 7; “helper” 8 and “helpers” 4 as a participle (Psalm 30:10). The passive נֶעֱזַר is “be helped” (“And they were helped against them”, 1 Chronicles 5:20).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• help ×39
• helped ×21
• helper ×8
• helps ×7
• helpers ×4
• helping ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×4
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×11
• 2 Chronicles×14
• Ezra×2
• Job×4
• Psalms×17
• Isaiah×12
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×3
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 49:25

  by the El of your father, who will help you, and by Shaddai, who will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

• Deuteronomy 32:38

  who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them be a hiding place over you.

• Joshua 1:14

  Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall live in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but you shall cross in battle formation before your brothers, all the mighty warriors, and help them,

• Joshua 10:4

  “Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel.”

• Joshua 10:6

  The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not let your hands go from your servants. Come up to us quickly, save us, and help us, for all the kings of the Amorite who live in the hill country have gathered against us.”

• Joshua 10:33

  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people until he had left him no survivor.

• 1 Samuel 7:12

  Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Eben-ezer, and said, “Until now YHWH has helped us.”

• 2 Samuel 8:5

  When Aram of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of Aram twenty two thousand men.

• 2 Samuel 18:3

  But the people said, “You shall not go out; for if we indeed flee, they will not set their heart on us; and if half of us die, they will not set their heart on us; for now there are ten thousand like us. So now it is better that you be for us from the city a help.”

• 2 Samuel 21:17

  But Abishai son of Zeruiah helped him, and he struck the Philistine and put him to death. Then David’s men swore to him, saying, “You shall not go out with us to battle again, so that you do not quench the lamp of Israel.”

• 1 Kings 1:7

  And he conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they helped, following Adonijah.

• 1 Kings 20:16

  They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking and drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings helping him.

• 2 Kings 14:26

  For YHWH saw the affliction of Israel, very bitter; there was none kept and none left, and there was no helper for Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 5:20

  And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand, for they cried out to Elohim in the battle, and he granted their plea, because they trusted in him.

• 1 Chronicles 12:1

  Now these are those who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still restrained because of Saul son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, helpers in the war.

• 1 Chronicles 12:17

  David went out before them and answered and said to them, “If you have come to me in peace, to help me, I will have toward you a heart united; but if it is to deceive me in favor of my adversaries, though there is no violence in my palms, may the Elohim of our fathers see and judge.”

• 1 Chronicles 12:18

  Then the spirit clothed Amasai, head of the captains: “We are yours, David, and with you, son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to the one who helps you, for your Elohim helps you.” And David received them and set them among the heads of the band.

• 1 Chronicles 12:19

  And from Manasseh some went over to David when he came with the Philistines against Saul for war; but they did not help them, for after taking counsel the lords of the Philistines sent him away, saying, “With our heads he will go over to his lord Saul.”

• 1 Chronicles 12:21

  They helped David against the band, for they were all mighty warriors, and they became commanders in the army.

• 1 Chronicles 12:22

  For day after day they came to David to help him, until there was a great camp, like the camp of Elohim.

• 1 Chronicles 15:26

  And it happened that when Elohim helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of YHWH, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

• 1 Chronicles 18:5

  When Aram of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of Aram twenty-two thousand men.

• 1 Chronicles 22:17

  David commanded all the officials of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 14:11

  Asa cried out to YHWH his Elohim and said, “YHWH, there is none like you to help between the mighty and the one without strength. Help us, YHWH our Elohim, for on you we rely, and in your name we have come against this multitude. YHWH, you are our Elohim; do not let mortal man prevail against you.”

• 2 Chronicles 18:31

  And it happened, when the commanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, “He is the king of Israel.” And they surrounded him to fight; but Jehoshaphat cried out, and YHWH helped him, and Elohim incited them to turn away from him.

• 2 Chronicles 19:2

  Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate YHWH? Because of this there is wrath on you from before YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 20:23

  The sons of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, to devote them to destruction and to destroy them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped each to destroy his fellow.

• 2 Chronicles 25:8

  But if you go, do it, be strong for the war: Elohim will make you stumble before the enemy; for there is power in Elohim to help and to make stumble.”

• 2 Chronicles 26:7

  Elohim helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.

• 2 Chronicles 26:13

  And under their direction was an army force of three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

• 2 Chronicles 26:15

  He made in Jerusalem devices, the invention of an inventor, to be on the towers and on the corners, to shoot arrows and large stones. And his name went out far, for he was marvelously helped until he was strong.

• 2 Chronicles 28:16

  At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.

• 2 Chronicles 28:23

  He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had struck him, and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram, they help them, to them I will sacrifice, and they will help me.” But they were for him to make him stumble, and all Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 32:3

  and he took counsel with his officials and his mighty men to stop up the waters of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.

• 2 Chronicles 32:8

  With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is YHWH our Elohim to help us and to fight our wars.” And the people relied on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

• Ezra 8:22

  For I was ashamed to ask of the king troops and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had said to the king, saying, “The hand of our Elohim is on all who seek him for good, and his strength and his anger are against all who forsake him.”

• Ezra 10:15

  Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood against this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

• Job 9:13

  Eloah does not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

• Job 26:2

  “How you have helped one who has no strength; how you have saved the arm without might.

• Job 29:12

  because I rescued the poor crying for help, and the orphan, and the one who had no helper.

And 41 more times.