Behold!
אֲרוּStrong’s H0718aru (a-ru)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aru is the Aramaic word usually translated “lo”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.”
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 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 7:5In contextAnd behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
- Daniel 7:6In contextAfter this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
- Daniel 7:7In contextAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
- Daniel 7:13In contextI saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Aramaic dictionary
אֲרוּ aru · 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.