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Behold

הִנֵּהStrong’s H2009

hinneh (hin-neh)

Appears in 800 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Hinneh is the Hebrew word usually translated “there”, “here” and “here i”. It appears in 800 verses of the Old Testament.

“Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.”
Daniel 8:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Behold, lo, see, if
How it's translated
  • and there 326
  • here 291
  • there 158
  • and here 33
  • here i 11
  • and there they 6
  • there they 6
  • here you 5

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 110
  • Ezekiel 75
  • 1 Samuel 70
  • Jeremiah 70
  • Isaiah 53
  • 2 Kings 46

35 books in all.

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All 800 verses, by book
Nehemiah 3
5:56:129:36
Esther 3
6:57:98:7
Proverbs 3
1:237:1024:31
Song of Solomon 4
2:82:92:113:7
Hosea 2
2:149:6
Joel 1
3:1
Obadiah 1
1:2
Micah 1
1:3
Nahum 2
1:153:13
Habakkuk 3
2:42:132:19
Haggai 1
1:9
Malachi 4
1:133:14:14:5
Hebrew dictionary

הִנֵּה hinneh · behold

behold, lo, see, if

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.]

  1. 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
  2. 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.

    1. “And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, a lamb, as it had been slain” Revelation 5:6
    2. 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.