Behold
אֲלוּStrong’s H0480alu (a-lu)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Alu is the Hebrew word usually translated “woe”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;”
Meaning
- Behold!, lo!
How it's translated
- woe 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Micah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.