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

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lo/#x1)
- 'Lo! did I not speak well? (The Orange Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lo/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lo/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1565/)
- [Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.233/)
- [And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.22/)
- [I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.125/)
- [I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.126/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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