Topic
Succor; Succorer
12 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 2 Samuel 8:5ISBE
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 18:5ISBE
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
- Psalms 22:19ISBE
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
- Wisdom of Solomon 17:12ISBE
For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 51:7ISBE
They compassed me on every side, and there was no man to help me: I looked for the succour of men, but there was none.
- 1 Maccabees 1:53ISBE
And drove the Israelites into secret places, even wheresoever they could flee for succour.
- 1 Maccabees 2:44ISBE
So they joined their forces, and smote sinful men in their anger, and wicked men in their wrath: but the rest fled to the heathen for succour.
- 1 Maccabees 12:15ISBE
For we have help from heaven that succoureth us, so as we are delivered from our enemies, and our enemies are brought under foot.
- 2 Maccabees 5:9ISBE
Thus he that had driven many out of their country perished in a strange land, retiring to the Lacedemonians, and thinking there to find succour by reason of his kindred:
- Romans 16:2ISBE
That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
- 2 Corinthians 6:2ISBE
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
- Hebrews 2:18ISBE
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 12 references
suk'-er, suk'-er-er ('azar; boetheo, prostatis): Is the translation of 'azar, "to gird" (2Sa 8:5, etc.); of boetheo, "to come in aid of" (2Co 6:2, "In a day of salvation did I succor thee"; Heb 2:18, "He is able to succor them that are tempted"); of prostatis, "one standing before" (Ro 16:2, the American Standard Revised Version "helper of many"); of antilepsis (Ecclesiasticus 51:7, the King James Version "I looked for the succour of men, but there was none"); of phugadeuterion (1 Macc 1:53, "flee for succor," the Revised Version (British and American) "place of refuge"); of sozo (1 Macc 2:44, "for succor," the Revised Version (British and American) "for safety"); of skepe (2 Macc 5:9, the Revised Version (British and American) "shelter"); "succors" occurs (The Wisdom of Solomon 17:12, the King James Version boethema, "for fear is nothing else but a betraying (the Revised Version (British and American) "surrender") of the succours which reason offereth"); "succoreth" (1 Macc 12:15, boetheo, "help from heaven that succoureth us," the Revised Version (British and American) "to help us"). the Revised Version (British and American) has "succor" for "help" (1Ch 18:5); "O thou my succor," for "O my strength" (Ps 22:19).
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.