helpmeet

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

helpmeet
    n 1: a helpful partner [syn: {helpmate}, {helpmeet}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Helpmeet \Help"meet`\, n. [See {Helpmate}.]
   A wife; a helpmate.
   [1913 Webster]

         The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his
         finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep,
         and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. --J. H.
                                                  Newman.
   [1913 Webster]

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Help-meet
(Heb. 'ezer ke-negdo; i.e., "a help as his counterpart" = a help
suitable to him), a wife (Gen. 2:18-20).