Helpmeet

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Helpmeet \Help"meet`\, n. [See {Helpmate}.]
     A wife; a helpmate.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his
           finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep,


           and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  helpmeet
       n : a helpful partner [syn: {helpmate}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Help-meet
     (Heb. 'ezer ke-negdo; i.e., "a help as his counterpart" = a help
     suitable to him), a wife (Gen. 2:18-20).