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Help
King James Dictionary
or HELP, A regular verb the old past tense and participle holp and holpen being obsolete.
1. To aid to assist to lend strength or means towards effecting a purpose as, to help a man in his work to help another in raising a building to help one to pay his debts to help the memory or the understanding.
2. To assist to succor to lend means of deliverance as, to help one in distress to help one out of prison.
3. To relieve to cure, or to mitigate pain or disease.
Help and ease them, but by no means bemoan them.
The true calamus helps a cough.
Sometimes with of as, to help one of blindness.
4. To remedy to change for the better.
Cease to lament for what thou cans't not help.
5. To prevent to hinder. The evil approached, and who can help it?
6. To forbear to avoid.
I cannot help remarking the resemblance between him and our author--
To help forward, to advance by assistance.
To help on, to forward to promote by aid.
To help out, to aid in delivering from difficulty, or to aid in completing a design.
The god of learning and of light,
Would want a god himself to help him out.
To help over, to enable to surmount as, to help one over a difficulty.
To help off, to remove by help as, to help off time. Unusual.
To help to, to supply with to furnish with.
Whom they would help to a kingdom. 1Maccabees.
Also, to present to at table as, to help one to a glass of wine.
HELP, To lend aid to contribute strength or means.
A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person.
To help out, to lend aid to bring a supply.
HELP, n. Aid assistance strength or means furnished towards promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress.
Give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man. Psalms 60
1. That which gives assistance he or that which contributes to advance a purpose.
Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.
God is a very present help in time of trouble. Psalms 46
2. Remedy relief. The evil is done there is no help for it. There is no help for the man his disease is incurable.
3. A hired man or woman a servant.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Help'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/help.html.
