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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of help.

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Examples

  • Thus our English word helpeth — [“helpeth our infirmities”] — represents a long Greek word compounded of two prepositions and a verb; the preposition with indicating a conjunction of sympathy, the preposition instead of, indicating substitution, and the verb taking hold of as in participation; [4] precisely the same verb in precisely the same phrase which is translated, “took our infirmities,” Matth. viii, 17 in the remarkable passage that declares the vicarious assumption of our bodily infirmities and evils by Christ; only there the verb is not intensified by the prepositions here compounded with it.

    The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871

  • The word translated "helpeth" is one of the apostle's suggestive picture words and means taketh hold along with us.

    Pastor Henry N. Jeter's Twenty-five Years Experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church and Her History. Corner School and Mary Streets, Newport, R. I. Henry Norval 1901

  • Not only does that Spirit co-operate with the human spirit in this witness-bearing, but the verse, of which our text is a part, points to another form of co-operation: for the word rendered in the earlier part of the verse 'helpeth' in the original suggests more distinctly that the Spirit of God in His intercession for us works in association with us.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Bishop JOSEPH PATTERSON: Since the spirit helpeth our infirmity, which mean the spirit comes together ...

    Many Black Social Movements Began In The Pulpit 2010

  • Paul talks about this prayer in Romans 8: 26 “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”

    Fervency in prayer 2008

  • A big helmet tip to NBFH who helpeth me writeth God words.

    Archive 2009-02-22 2009

  • Nicholas Culpeper, the famous seventeenth-century herbalist, wrote that it “helpeth those that are bit by a mad dog.”

    Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008

  • And Omar (whom Allah accept!) saith, ‘There are three kinds of women, firstly the true believing, Heaven fearing, love full and fruit full, who helpeth her mate against fate, not helping fate against her mate; secondly, she who loveth her children but no more and, lastly, she who is a shackle Allah setteth on the neck of whom He will.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Nicholas Culpeper, the famous seventeenth-century herbalist, wrote that it “helpeth those that are bit by a mad dog.”

    Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008

  • Nicholas Culpeper, the famous seventeenth-century herbalist, wrote that it “helpeth those that are bit by a mad dog.”

    Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008

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