behelp

B3E1H4E1L1P3
/bɪˈhɛlp/

verb

To help (with); give aid or assistance to.

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Meanings

verbbehelp (third-person singular simple present behelps, present participle behelping, simple past behelped or (archaic, dialectal) beholp, past participle behelped or (archaic, dialectal) beholp or (archaic, dialectal) beholpen)

present singular third person behelps · participle present behelping · past behelped · archaic dialectal past beholp · participle past behelped · archaic dialectal participle past beholp · archaic dialectal participle past beholpen

  1. archaictransitiveTo help (with); give aid or assistance to.

    Filthiness is in their skirts (Lamentations I) and woe behelp them at the second coming. Alleluia.

    1961, John Reeves, A beach of strangers: an excursion
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    But we live in a good hope of better times and then, hopefully, will this dessign be excuted; Meanwhile I must behelp myself with this boock, so, as I have found it, and so as it is.

    1713, The records of the Swedish Lutheran churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck

    It is said of one of them that at an audience with the Queen of England he was asked whether he was married and, his knowledge of the English language being defective, replied: "No, Your Majesty, behelp me so!

    1933, Hugo von Waldeyer-Hartz, Admiral von Hipper

Origin

From be- + help. Cognate with Scots behelpe (“to assist”), West Frisian beholpje, Dutch behelpen (“to make do”), German behelfen (“to manage”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with behelp

helpkelpyelpwelpayelpfeather boa kelp
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Cite this entry
APA

behelp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/behelp

MLA

“behelp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/behelp. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “behelp,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/behelp.

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