lo

«lo» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: look! — 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!

part of speech

interjection

meaning for a pupil

Look! See! Behold! tree →

how it differs from today

No longer common; today we say "look!" or "behold!" "Lo" is old and found mostly in formal or old-style speech.

examples

• Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. (Torah GEN.47.23, JPS 1917) tree →
• 'Lo! did I not speak well? (The Orange Fairy Book) tree →
• And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. (Torah NUM.23.6, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 10.2; corpora 125 (Torah 24, tales 101, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 4; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 6.2); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
• Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.
• And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.
• I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.

Trees and pragmatics

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