Help Meet: A Biblical Perspective

Teaching on the meaning of the phrase "help meet" as it appears in the Old Testament of the Bible in the Hebrew language.
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[@stanleymangumjr]

This is a life changing word

[@kafiwoody776]

Woow this has helped provide some clarity for me as a wife, and a helpmeet unto my husband! Thank you

[@ApostleEL]

Grace and Peace! I am so happy that the teaching has been able to provide you with some clarity to help you in your spiritual walk. Thanks for sharing what appears to have liberated your previous understanding.

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[@MichaelPetrone-ng5yx]

Thank You Dr.Terrence - It Happened unto me by Divine Intervention - She walked into a Whole Foods and Light was All over her face at Three different Times and at Three different angles - I heard her as she pointed at me to say "I think I'll talk to him" We had a mostly non stop conversation for a year then when we went as far as we could and I did All I could - I left - My Great Peace is I don't even know what God has for me is going to look like and what I face now as to where I am seems Impossible - Tho for God to Move I would say that I'm in the Xact Place - The words that were given you is what I needed at this Time

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Good teaching brother

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"Meet" means suitable help meet means a suitable helper.

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Amen 🙏🏽

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This word Meet has more than one definition based on the context it is being used in. We do see many passages that use the word meet in the context you are sharing but the context in which meet is used in Genesis is different from what you are expressing. Meet in the context used in Genesis "help meet" is the same context and meaning as seen in Matthew 3 Matthew 3:8 KJV 8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: To find the meaning of the word meet in this context we MUST look at another passage with the same message in the same context. Lets look at that passage now. Luke 3:8 KJV 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. Same message, same context but using another word giving us the meaning of the word used in Matthew 3:8 The meaning of "meet" in this context is "worthy" or deserving. Lets look at the definitions to see the proper fit of the Word meet in this context. If we look for the definition of the word meet we only find two but neither of these fit the context. MEET, a. [L. convenio.] Fit; suitable; proper; qualified; convenient; adapted, as to a use or purpose. Ye shall pass over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. Deut.3. It was meet that we should make merry--Luke 15. In this definition any of the animals Adam named would fill this definition. The animals could be fit, suitable, proper, qualified, convenient, adapted, for a use or purpose of many types. So we see this would not fit the context in the Genesis passage.

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This next definition I included, the animals could still fill this definition in many ways. MEET, v.t. pret. and pp. met. [Gr. with.] 1. To come together, approaching in opposite or different directions; to come face to face; as, to meet a man in the road. His daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances. Judges 11. 2. To come together in any place; as, we met many strangers at the levee. 3. To come together in hostility; to encounter. The armies met on the plains of Pharsalia. 4. To encounter unexpectedly. 5. To come together in extension; to come in contact; to join. The line A meets the line B and forms an angle. 6. To come to; to find; to light on; to receive. The good man meets his reward; the criminal in due time meets the punishment he deserves. Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first. MEET, v.i. To come together or to approach near, or into company with. How pleasant it is for friends to meet on the road; still more pleasant to meet in a foreign country. 1. To come together in hostility; to encounter. The armies met at Waterloo, and decided the fate of Buonaparte. 2. To assemble; to congregate. The council met at 10 o'clock. The legislature will meet on the first Wednesday in the month. 3. To come together by being extended; to come in contact; to join. Two converging lines will meet in a point. To meet with; to light on; to find; to come to; often with the sense of an unexpected event. We met with many things worthy of observation. 1. To join; to unite in company. Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us. 2. To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to meet with a loss. 3. To encounter; to engage in opposition. Royal mistress, Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince. 4. To obviate; a Latinism. To meet half way, to approach from an equal distance and meet; metaphorically, to make mutual and equal concessions, each party renouncing some pretensions.

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Now lets look at the definition of meet in the context of worthy/deserving. WORTHY, a. [G.] 1. *Deserving;* such as merits; having worth or excellence; *equivalent;* with of, before the thing deserved. She has married a man worthy of her. Thou art worthy of the sway. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies--Genesis 32. 2. Possessing worth or excellence of qualities; *virtuous;* estimable; as a worthy citizen; a worthy magistrate. Happier thou mayst be, worthier canst not be. This worthy mind should worthy things embrace. 3. Suitable; having qualities suited to; either in a good or bad sense; equal in value; as flowers worthy of paradise. 4. Suitable to any thing bad. The merciless Macdonald, worthy to be a rebel. 5. Deserving of ill; as things worthy of stripes. Luke 12. DESERVING, ppr. 1. *Meriting;* having a just claim to reward; justly meriting punishment. 2. *Worthy* of reward or praise; meritorious; *possessed of good qualities* that entitle to approbation; as a deserving officer. DESERVING, n. The act of *meriting;* desert; *merit.* If ye have done to him according to the deserving of his hands. Judges 9. DESERVE, v.t. [L. To serve.] 1. *To merit; to be worthy of;* applied to good or evil. 2. *To merit by labor or services;* to have a just claim to an equivalent for good conferred. The laborer deserves his wages; he deserves the value of his services. 3. *To merit by good actions or qualities in general; to be worthy of, on account of excellence.* The virtuous man deserves esteem and commendation. A work of value deserves praise. 4. *To be worthy of,* in a bad sense; *to merit* by an evil act; as, to deserve blame or punishment. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job 11. DESERVE, v.i. *To merit; to be worthy of or deserving;* as, he deserves well or ill of his neighbor. DESERVED, pp. *Merited; worthy of.*

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Now lets look at some things we see inside the definition of worthy/deserving. *EQUIV'ALENT*, a. *Equal in value or worth.* In barter, the goods given are supposed to be equivalent to the goods received. Equivalent in value or worth, is tautological. 1. Equal in force, power or effect. A steam engine may have force or power equivalent to that of thirty horses. 2. Equal in moral force, cogency or effect on the mind. Circumstantial evidence may be almost equivalent to full proof. 3. Of the same import or meaning. Friendship and amity are equivalent terms. For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent. Equivalent propositions in logic are called also equipollent. 4. Equal in excellence or moral worth. *EQUIV'ALENT,* n. *That which is equal in value,* weight, dignity or force, with something else. The debtor cannot pay his creditor in money, but he will pay him an equivalent. Damages in money cannot be an equivalent for the loss of a limb. 1. In chimistry, equivalent is the particular weight or quantity of any substance which is necessary to saturate any other with which it can combine. It is ascertained that chimical combinations are definite, that is, the same body always enters into combination in the same weight, or if it can combine with a particular body in more than one proportion, the higher proportion is always a multiple of the lower. MER'IT, n. [L. meritum, from mereo, to earn or deserve.] 1. Desert; goodness or excellence which entitles one to honor or regard; worth; any performance or worth which claims regard or compensation; applied to morals, to excellence in writing, or to valuable services of any kind. Thus we speak of the inability of men to obtain salvation by their own merits. We speak of the merits of an author; the merits of a soldier, &c. 2. Value; excellence; applied to things; as the merits of an essay or poem; the merits of a pointing; the merits of a heroic achievement. 3. Reward deserved; that which is earned or merited. Those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth. MER'IT, v.t. [L. merito.] *To deserve; to earn by active service, or by any valuable performance;* to have a right to claim reward in money, regard, honor or happiness. Watts, by his writings, merited the gratitude of the whole christian world. The faithful laborer merits his wages. A man at best is incapable of meriting any thing from God. 1. *To deserve; to have a just title to.* Fidelity merits and usually obtains confidence. 2. *To deserve,* in an ill sense; to have a just title to. Every violation of law merits punishment. Every sin merits God's displeasure. MER'ITED, pp. *Earned; deserved.* MER'ITING, ppr. *Earning; deserving.*

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So now put the definition for Worthy/deserving together with the definition of help and you will see the proper context of "help meet". HELP, v.t. A regular verb; the old past tense and participle holp and holpen being obsolete. 1. *To aid; to assist;* to lend strength or means towards effecting a purpose; as, to help a man in his work; to help another in raising a building; to help one to pay his debts; to help the memory or the understanding. 2. *To assist; to succor;* to lend means of deliverance; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. 3. *To relieve;* to cure, or to mitigate pain or disease. Help and ease them, but by no means bemoan them. The true calamus helps a cough. Sometimes with of; as, to help one of blindness. 4. To remedy; to change for the better. Cease to lament for what thou cans't not help. 5. To prevent; to hinder. The evil approached, and who can help it? 6. To forbear; to avoid. I cannot help remarking the resemblance between him and our author-- *To help forward, to advance by assistance.* *To help on, to forward; to promote by aid.* To help out, *to aid* in delivering from difficulty, or to aid in completing a design. The god of learning and of light, Would want a god himself to help him out. To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over a difficulty. To help off, to remove by help; as, to help off time. [Unusual.] To help to, to supply with; to furnish with. Whom they would help to a kingdom. 1 Maccabees. Also, to present to at table; as, to help one to a glass of wine. HELP, v.i. *To lend aid;* to contribute strength or means. A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person. To help out, *to lend aid;* to bring a supply. HELP, n. *Aid; assistance;* strength or means furnished towards promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress. Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man. Ps.60. 1. That which gives assistance; he or that which contributes to advance a purpose. Virtue is a friend and a help to nature. God is a very present help in time of trouble. Ps.46. 2. Remedy; relief. The evil is done; there is no help for it. There is no help for the man; his disease is incurable. 3. A hired man or woman; a servant. HELP'ER, n. *One that helps, aids or assists;* an assistant; an auxiliary. 1. One that furnishes or administers a remedy. Compassion--is oftentimes a helper of evils. 2. One that supplies with any thing wanted; with to. A helper to a husband. 3. A supernumerary servant. HELP'FUL, a. *That gives aid or assistance;* that furnishes means of promoting an object; useful. 1. Wholesome; salutary; as helpful medicines. *HELP'FULNESS, n. Assistance; usefulness.* AID, v.t. [L. adjuto. *To help; to assist; to support,* either by furnishing strength or means to effect a purpose, or to prevent or remove evil. AID, n. 1. *Help; succor; support; assistance.* 2. The *person who aids or yields support; a helper; an auxiliary;* also the thing that *aids or yields succor.* 3. In English law, a subsidy or tax granted by parliament, and making a part of the king's revenue. In France, aids are equivalent to customs, or duties on imports and exports. 4. In England, a tax paid by a tenant to his lord; originally a mere gift, which afterwards became a right demandable by the lord. the aids of this king were chiefly three. 1. To ransom the lord when a prisoner. 2. To make the lord's eldest son a knight. 3. To marry the lord's eldest daughter. 5. An aiddecamp, so called by abbreviation. 6. To pray in aid, in law, is to call in a person interested in a title, to assist in defending it. Thus a tenant for life may pray in the aid of him in remainder or reversion; that is, he may pray or petition that he may be joined in the suit to aid or help maintain the title. This act or petition is called aid-prayer. Court of aids, in France, is a court which has cognizance of causes respecting duties or customs. SUC'COR, v.t. [L. succurro; sub and curro, to run.] *Literally, to run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering;* as, to succor a besieged city; to succor prisoners. He is able to succor them that are tempted. Heb.2. SUC'COR, n. *Aid; help; assistance; particularly, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want or distress.* My father Flying for succor to his servant Banister-- 1. *The person* or thing *that brings relief.* The city when pressed received succors from an unexpected quarter. The mighty succor which made glad the foe. SUPPORT, v.t. [L. supporto; sub and porto, to carry.] 1. *To bear; to sustain; to uphold; as, a prop or pillar supports a structure;* an abutment supports an arch; the stem of a tree supports the branches. Every edifice must have a foundation to support it; a rope or cord supports a weight. 2. To endure without being overcome; as, *to support pain, distress or misfortunes.* This fierce demeanor and his insolence, The patience of a God could not support. 3. To bear; to endure; as, *to support fatigues or hardships;* to support violent exertions. The eye will not support the light of the sun's disk. 4. To sustain; to keep from fainting or sinking; as, *to support the courage or spirits.* 5. To sustain; *to act or represent well;* as, to support the character or king Lear; to support the part assigned. 6. To bear; to supply funds for or the means of continuing; as, to support the annual expenses of government. 7. To sustain; to carry on; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or debate. 8. To maintain with provisions and the necessary means of living; as, to support a family; to support a son in college; to support the ministers of the gospel. 9. To maintain; to sustain; *to keep from failing;* as, to support life; to support the strength by nourishment. 10. To sustain without change or dissolution; as, clay supports an intense heat. 11. To bear; to keep from sinking; as, water supports ships and other bodies; air supports a balloon. 12. To bear without being exhausted; to be able to pay; as, to support taxes or contributions. 13. To sustain; to maintain; as, to support a good character. 14. To maintain; to verify; to make good; to substantiate. The testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations; the impeachment is well supported by evidence. 15. *To uphold by aid or countenance;* as, to support a friend or a party. 16. *To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully;* as, to be able to support one's own cause. SUPPORT, n. *The act or operation of upholding or sustaining.* 1. That which upholds, sustains or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, a foundation of any kind. 2. That which maintains life; as, food is the support of life, of the body, of strength. Oxygen or vital air has been supposed to be the support of respiration and of heat in the blood. 3. Maintenance; subsistence; as an income sufficient for the support of a family; or revenue for the support of the army and navy. 4. Maintenance; an upholding; continuance in any state, or preservation from falling, sinking or failing; as taxes necessary for the support of public credit; a revenue for the support of government. 5. In general, the maintenance or sustaining of any thing without suffering it to fail, decline or languish; *as the support of health, spirits, strength or courage; the support of reputation,* credit, &c. 6. *That which upholds or relieves; aid; help; succor; assistance.* ASSIST'ANCE, n. *Help; aid; furtherance; succor; a contribution of support in bodily strength or other means.* ASSIST'ANT, a. *Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.* ASSIST'ANT, n. *One who aids, or who contributes his strength or other means to further the designs of welfare of another; an auxiliary.* ASSIST'ED, pp. *Helped; aided.* ASSIST'ER, n. *One that lends aid.* ASSIST'ING, ppr. *Helping; aiding; supporting with strength or means.*

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