Behold
אֲלוּStrong’s H0431alu (a-lu)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Alu is the Aramaic word usually translated “lo”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.”
Meaning
- Behold!, lo!
How it's translated
- and lo 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:10In contextThus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
- Daniel 4:13In contextI saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
- Daniel 7:8In contextI considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Aramaic dictionary
אֲלוּ alu · behold
behold!, lo! Aramaic of al.lay (אַלְלַי "woe!" H0480)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “behold” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEHO'LD, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive beheld' [Latin observo, from servo, to keep.]
- To fix the eyes upon; to see with attention; to observe with care.“Behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world” John 1:29
- In a less intensive sense, to look upon; to see.“When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived” Numbers 21:9
All definitions and other forms of “behold”
BEHO'LD, verb intransitive
To look; to direct the eyes to an object.
- “And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, a lamb, as it had been slain” Revelation 5:6
- To fix the attention upon an object; to attend; to direct or fix the mind.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.