Helpmeet
Help Meet • Help-meet • Helpmate
Dictionaries


Help-meet
Help-meet—(Heb. ʾezer ke-negdo; i.e., “a help as his counterpart” = a help suitable to him), a wife (Gen. 2:18–20).


Helpmeet for him
Help-meet for him (Adam), that is, an aid suitable and supplementary to him, the delicate and beautiful designation of a wife which admirably expresses her relation (Gen. 2:18–20).

Help Meet
HELP MEET KJV term for woman as a helper precisely adapted to man (Gen. 2:18). Modern translations supply various equivalents: helper suitable for him (NASB, NIV); helper as his partner (NRSV); a suitable companion to help him (TEV). The noun translated “helper” or “partner” does not suggest subordination.
