βοηθεῖ (boethei)

βοηθεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of βοηθέω, meaning “come to help, bring aid”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

It can also be a form of βοήθεια, “help, aid, relief”. It is the nominative singular feminine noun.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caesar 66.5: … ἐξεφώνησαν ὁ μὲν πληγεὶς Ῥωμαϊστί μιαρώτατε Κάσκα, τί ποιεῖς; ὁ δὲ πλήξας Ἑλληνιστὶ πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφόν ἀδελφέ, βοήθει. τοιαύτης δὲ τῆς ἀρχῆς γενομένης τοὺς μὲν οὐδὲν συνειδότας ἔκπληξις εἶχε καὶ φρίκη πρὸς τὰ δρώμενα, μήτε φεύγ …

Plutarch, Cicero 47.6: … ταῦθʼ ὁρῶντες, καὶ κακίσαντες ἑαυτοὺς εἰ περιμένουσι τοῦ δεσπότου φονευομένου θεαταὶ γενέσθαι, θηρία δʼ αὐτῷ βοηθεῖ καὶ προκήδεται παρʼ ἀξίαν πράττοντος, αὐτοὶ δʼ οὐκ ἀμύνουσι, τὰ μὲν δεόμενοι, τὰ δὲ βίᾳ λαβόντες ἐκόμιζον ἐν …

Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 84: … υνεχεῖ καὶ πόλεσιν μεγάλαις συμμάχων ἀνδρῶν καὶ χώρᾳ πολλῇ περιείδετʼ ἀνασταθεῖσαν. καὶ ματαία μὲν ἡ πρότερον βοήθειʼ εἰς Πύλας ὑμῖν γέγονεν, ἣν μετὰ πλειόνων ἢ διακοσίων ταλάντων ἐποιήσασθε, ἂν λογίσησθε τὰς ἰδίας δαπάνας τὰς …

All forms of βοηθέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.