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Beheld vs Behelp - What's the difference?

beheld | behelp |

As verbs the difference between beheld and behelp

is that beheld is past tense of behold while behelp is to help (with); give aid or assistance to.

As a noun behelp is

help; aid; assistance.

beheld

English

Verb

(head)
  • (behold)
    • ----

    behold

    English

    Verb

  • To see, or to look at.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

    Usage notes

    Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

    Synonyms

    * get a load of

    Derived terms

    * beholder ** eye of the beholder

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----

    behelp

    English

    Verb

  • To help (with); give aid or assistance to.
  • *1713 , The records of the Swedish Lutheran churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck:
    • 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.
  • *1933 , Hugo von Waldeyer-Hartz, Admiral von Hipper :
    • 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!
  • *1961 , John Reeves, A beach of strangers: an excursion :
    • Filthiness is in their skirts (Lamentations I) and woe behelp them at the second coming. Alleluia.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Help; aid; assistance.
  • *1990 , Dina Nath Raina, Unhappy Kashmir: the hidden story :
    • Kashmir acceded to India when she was still a dominion of Commonwealth and the accession was accepted on behelp of the Crown by the Governor-General.