Behold
הֵאStrong’s H1887he
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
He is the Hebrew word usually translated “here” and “there”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.”
Meaning
- Behold!, lo!
How it's translated
- here 1
- there 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
הֵא he · behold
behold!, lo!
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.