אֲרוּ
ʼărûw · H718 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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Behold
ExamplesDaniel 7:13 “I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a son of man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him.
Daniel 7:2 Daniel said, “I was looking in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.
Daniel 7:5 “And behold, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and they said this to it: ‘Arise, devour much meat!’
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 (idoú, G2400) serves as the direct translation equivalent of Aramaic אֲרוּ (ʼărûw, H718), both functioning as interjections meaning 'behold' or 'lo' to direct attention.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H718. aru אֲרוּ interjection lo (of uncertain derivation: only Biblical Aramaic (?…
אֲרוּ interjection lo (of uncertain derivation: only Biblical Aramaic (? Nabataean, see CISii. 186); אֲלוּ, and Late Hebrew הֲרֵי see! Here! Ab Dan 3:4 and elsewhere, are perhaps allied), וַאֲרוּ Dan 7:2 וַאֲרוּ ֗֗֗ הֲוֵית חָוֵי, Dan 7:5; Dan 7:6; Dan 7:7; Dan 7:13, always in description of a vision (compare אֲלוּ).
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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