אֲלוּ
ʼălûw · H431 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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Behold
ExamplesDaniel 2:31 You, O king, were watching and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary radiance, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἰδού idoú · G2400 · behold, look
- Greek ἰδού functions as the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew אֲלוּ, both serving as interjections that direct attention ('behold,' 'lo') with imperatival force.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H431. alu אֲלוּ Interjection lo! (derivation uncertain: usually regarded as by-form of…
אֲלוּ Interjection lo! (derivation uncertain: usually regarded as by-form of אֲרוּ, q. v.; compare Egyptian Aramaic הלו, CookeNo.73, RES492 B = S-CM b); — וַאֲלוּ Dan 2:31 וַאֲלוּ הֲוַיְתָ חָזֵי, Dan 4:7; Dan 4:10; Dan 7:8 always in description of a vision.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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