Behold
הָאStrong’s H1888ha
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ha is the Aramaic word usually translated “here” and “look”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”
Meaning
- Behold!, lo!
- Even as, like as
How it's translated
- here 1
- look 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
הָא ha · behold
behold!, lo! Aramaic of he (הֵא "behold" H1887)
הֵא he · behold!
even as, like as Aramaic of he (הֵא "behold" H1887)
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.