[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/behold.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/) / behold

[← B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/B/)

# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/behold/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/behold/#x1)
- It was very beautiful to behold. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/behold/#x2)
- As the prophet Isaiah exclaimed: "Behold! (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/behold/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.32/)
- [And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.161/)
- ['As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.226/)
- [Wherefore the well was called 'Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.411/)
- ['As for Me, behold, My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.417/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «behold» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/behold/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.