help-meet

Remember that you are a help-meet for your husband and so, while he is away, do the things that are helpful to him.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

Remember that you are a help-meet for your husband and so, while he is away, do the things that are helpful to him.

First Year Home 2008

She explained that she was trying to be a help-meet or help-mate to her husband.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

She explained that she was trying to be a help-meet or help-mate to her husband.

Accomplishing Something 2007

As women, we are called to respect our husbands and be their help-meet (sic); thank you for staying with your husband through his political career despite the public's harsh critiques and impatience.

OH-GOV: "Ashamed" Daughter of Gay-Baiter Apologizes to Strickland 2009

'Tis not my sorcery that makes thy husband hate thee, nay, but thy own failure to prove thyself his help-meet.

Andromache 2007

'Tis not my sorcery that makes thy husband hate thee, nay, but thy own failure to prove thyself his help-meet.

Andromache 2007

They have few home ties in the shape of children, and I fear make them fewer still by neglecting them for the sake of riding and frolic, and man seems rather the help-meet than the “oppressor” of woman; though I believe that the women have abandoned that right of choosing their husbands, which, it is said, that they exercised in the old days.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The truth that woman is the help-meet of man has practically led to her education in such a way that half her power to aid, and counsel, and comfort is taken away.

The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

As in the family, the husband is called _the head of the wife_, 1 Cor. xi., because he is to govern, she is to be subject: the wife is called _an help-meet_, &c.,

The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London