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Behelp vs Behell - What's the difference?

behelp | behell |

As verbs the difference between behelp and behell

is that behelp is to help (with); give aid or assistance to while behell is to torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

As a noun behelp

is help; aid; assistance.

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.

    behell

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).
  • Did behell and rack him ? Hewyt.
  • *1936 , Frederick Walker Mott, Archives of neurology and psychiatry :
  • Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling " injections.
  • *2006 , Philangi Dasa, Swedenborg the Buddhist :
  • I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!