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# succour

«succour» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **help given to someone in trouble or need** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (no plural); verb (succours, succoured, succouring); old use

### meaning for a pupil

1) Succour is help given to someone in trouble or need. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/succour/#m1)

2) To succour someone is to help them when they are in danger or need. (Spelt succor in America.) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/succour/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: An old word for help given to someone in danger, especially in battle. In the primary lessons: in fairy tales, a hero or helper who comes to rescue someone from danger

### examples

- But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. (Prophets 2SA.21.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/succour/#x1)
- And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men. (Prophets 2SA.8.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/succour/#x2)
- And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men. (Writings 1CH.18.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/succour/#x3)
- The knight came to their succour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/succour/#x4)
- The old woman gave succour to the lost child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/succour/#x5)
- The god promised to succour the weak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/succour/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.213/)
- [But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.652/)
- [And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.698/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «succour» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/succour/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.