"helpmeet" meaning in English

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      },
      "expansion": "Univerbation",
      "name": "univerbation"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "help",
        "3": "meet"
      },
      "expansion": "help + meet",
      "name": "compound"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "<i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">help</i> + <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">meet</i>"
      },
      "expansion": "(help + meet)",
      "name": "gloss"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Univerbation of part of a phrase in Genesis 2:18 in the King James Version: “an helpe meet” for Adam (i.e. a helper suitable for him) (help + meet).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "helpmeets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "helpmeet (plural helpmeets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1839, The Friend's Intelligencer, volume 1, number 24, Eighth month 1st, 1839, article Friend's Discipline, pages 456–457",
          "text": "[on vocabulary errors] … and helpmates for meet-helps—the difference of the meaning of the two words is so obvious, that it is surprising it should have escaped attention.—A person may be a helpmate and at the same time be very far from being a help-meet, which is here intended."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:",
          "text": "When he went to Deborah and told her that the Lord had led him to ask her to be his wife, his holy helpmeet, she looked at him for a moment in what seemed to be speechless terror.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A helpful partner, particularly a spouse."
      ],
      "id": "en-helpmeet-en-noun-ku3ojMcr",
      "links": [
        [
          "spouse",
          "spouse"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "helpmate"
        },
        {
          "word": "spouse"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "helpmeet"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "Univerbation",
      "name": "univerbation"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "help",
        "3": "meet"
      },
      "expansion": "help + meet",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">help</i> + <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">meet</i>"
      },
      "expansion": "(help + meet)",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Univerbation of part of a phrase in Genesis 2:18 in the King James Version: “an helpe meet” for Adam (i.e. a helper suitable for him) (help + meet).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "helpmeets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "helpmeet (plural helpmeets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English univerbations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1839, The Friend's Intelligencer, volume 1, number 24, Eighth month 1st, 1839, article Friend's Discipline, pages 456–457",
          "text": "[on vocabulary errors] … and helpmates for meet-helps—the difference of the meaning of the two words is so obvious, that it is surprising it should have escaped attention.—A person may be a helpmate and at the same time be very far from being a help-meet, which is here intended."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:",
          "text": "When he went to Deborah and told her that the Lord had led him to ask her to be his wife, his holy helpmeet, she looked at him for a moment in what seemed to be speechless terror.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A helpful partner, particularly a spouse."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spouse",
          "spouse"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "helpmate"
        },
        {
          "word": "spouse"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "helpmeet"
}