ezer kenegdo

After giving the man work to do and a warning with regard to navigating life in God's garden in a way that is Life and not a prideful partaking of what leads to death, God says,
"It is not good for the man to be alone, I will make a helper fit for him" (Genesis 2:18).
I shared Sunday in a sermon based on this verse that God did not make the woman because the man was lonely, nor to make him happy, but to join him in the call to "bear the image, do the work, and live the Life;" and we saw that that phrase "a helper fit for him" can be understood as something like

"a power equal to him" or
"a strength corresponding to him."

What's very cool is that the overwhelming majority of times the word ezer ("help" / "helper") is used in the Hebrew Scriptures is in reference to God. There is absolutely no concept here of my little assistant or apprentice who just adds an additional pair of hands to get a job done... in fact part of the idea of the "fit for him" or "corresponding to him" or "equal to him" can even be something like "in his face" (that's not a joke!). I found the following article excellent.
ezer kenegdo