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Helpmeet
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The Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia
Help Meet, Helpmate
HELP MEET, HELPMATE. In (Gen 2:18, 20) the expression for the spouse for Adam consists of two Heb. words, ‘ēzor knegdô, translated in KJV as “an help meet for him,” in RSV as “a helper fit for him,” and in JerusB as “a help.” The first word is the usual noun for “help” (q.v.). The second term means
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
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).
Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Helpmeet
HELPMEET — KJV word for helper, companion, or mate, used by God to describe Eve before she was created as Adam’s spouse (Gen. 2:18; helper comparable to him, NKJV; helper suitable for him, NIV).
The Westminster Bible Dictionary
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).
Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary
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.
The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 3, H–L
Helpmeet
helpmeet. This English term, meaning “helpmate,” does not occur in the Bible, but apparently arose from a misunderstanding of the words, “I will make him an help meet [i.e., a helper suitable] for him” (Gen. 2:18, 20 KJV). See Adam; Eve.