Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, β , βοή , βοηθ-έω

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βοηθ-έω (sts. written βοιηθέω, IG22.237 (iv B. C.), BGU1007.12 (iii B. C.)), Ion. βωθέω , only Hsch. βωθέοντες, not in Hdt. (but cf. Eust.812.59) or Hp., cf. “βοηθήσω” Michel 12.15 (Erythrae, iv B. C.); Dor. βοα_θοέω SIG421.27 (Thermon); Aeol. βα_θόημι (q. v.):—Med., fut.

A.“-ήσομαι” Lib.Or.1.128:—come to aid, succour, assist, aid, c. dat., “τῇ σφετέρῃ” Hdt.1.82; “τοῖσιν ἠδικημένοις” E.IA79; “πρὸς τοὺς αὑτῶν ψιλούς” X.HG1.2.3; “τινὶ ἀντία τινός” Hdt.5.99; “τινὶ πρὸς τὸ ἄναντες” X.HG4.8.38; ναυσὶ β. τινί πολιορκουμένῳ ib.1.6.22; “β. τοῖς φίλοις τὰ δίκαια” Id.Mem.2.6.25; β. τοῖς τῶν προγ<*>´νων ἀτυχήμασιν Aeschin.3.169; “β. τῷ λόγῳ” Pl.Phd.88e; β. τῷ θεῷ maintain his rights, Epist. Philipp. ap. D.18.157; “β. τοῖς νόμοις” Aeschin.1.33: c. dat. et acc., “πατρὶ βοηθῶν θάνατον” Pl.Lg.874c; of a physician, “β. τῷ θερμῷ ἐπὶ τὸ ψυχρόν” Hp.VM13: abs., Plu.Alex. 19.

2. abs., come to the rescue, Hdt.1.30, 7.158, A.Supp.613, etc.; “β. παρά τινα” Hdt.9.57; ἐπί τινα against one, Id.1.62, 4.125, Th.1.126, etc.; β. ἐς . . Hdt.6.103; ἐπὶ . . Th.3.97, 4.72; “ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς” Id.8.11; “ἐκεῖσε” D.4.41; β. πρός τι contribute to an object, v. l. in Arist.EN1155a14, cf. Metaph.1079b16, or keep it off, Id.Resp.474b24, HA621a13; χρήμασι with money, Id.EN1130a19: Medic., βοηθεῖ πρὸς τὸ κώνειον it is an antidote to . . , Thphr.HP9.20.1; freq. in Dsc. as “β. τοῖς φαγοῦσι” 4.83.

3. Pass., to be assisted, receive help, “παρά τινος” Arist. Rh. 1383b28; “βοηθήσομαι” LXX Da.11.34, but “βοηθηθήσομαι” Is.44.2; ἐβοήθην ib.10.3, 2 Ch.26.15 (v.l. ἐβοηθήθην）“; ἵν᾽ ὦ βεβοηθημένη” PRyl.122.12 (ii A. D.); esp. of patients, derive benefit, Dsc.4.82, Plu.2.687f: impers., “ἐμοὶ βεβοήθηται τῷ τεθνεῶτι” Antipho 1.31; “ταύτῃ μοι βεβοηθημένον ἐγεγόνει φιλοσοφίᾳ” Pl.Ep.347e.

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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