Ezer kenegdo

In this article, Maria Dyck shares how understanding the Hebrew term ‘helpmeet’ helped free her from expectations in her marriage and gave her a desire to lean into her identity.

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The Hebrew word Ezer has become popular in discussions about women, but the Bible teaches there is another, more important Ezer.

Genesis 2:18 says that God meant Eve to be an ezer kenegdo for Adam, a helper as his partner. A closer look reveals a relationship built on mutuality and partnership.

Quote "Ezers do hard things." Ezer is the Hebrew transliteration of the word helper in Genesis when God created woman.

There’s something to be said for a woman who is strong, confident, and a hard worker. I’d say being described by those three words is quite a compliment. Yet these […]

When God creates Eve, he calls her an ezer kenegdo. “It is not good for the man to be alone, I shall make him [an ezer kenegdo]” (Genesis 2:18 Alter).

As God was organizing the earth, He paused at the end of each creative period to announce, “It is good.” He had created light, water, mountains, valleys, plants, fish, birds, and animals. He had given Adam dominion over all the earth. But as God admired His most recent creation—Adam—He observed, "It is not good (Gen 2:18). Of course, he wasn’t referring to His creation of man, but to the fact that something was still missing. That “something” was Eve.