behold

«behold» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: look!; here is — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

look!; here is

part of speech

verb; interjection

meaning for a pupil

To see or look at something, or as a cry: look! tree →

how it differs from today

Old-fashioned today, mostly used in old tales and the Bible. We would say look or see.

examples

• And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. (Torah GEN.41.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• It was very beautiful to behold. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• As the prophet Isaiah exclaimed: "Behold! (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

primary record

behold

tests

manual 10.2; corpora 415 (Torah 237, tales 173, Sefer Yetzirah 5); EWT 2; ratio 9.4 (Torah alone 110.6); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good.
• And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
• 'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
• Wherefore the well was called 'Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
• 'As for Me, behold, My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «behold» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.