ἰδού

From ἰδοῦ (idoû), aorist middle imperative second singular form of ὁράω (horáō, “to see, to find out, to make sure”).

ἰδού • (idoú)

1. lo!, behold!
   • Sophocles, Ajax 870
   1. (in giving or offering a thing) there! take it!
      • Sophocles, Philoctetes 776
      • Euripides, Orestes 143
      • Aristophanes, The Clouds 825
      • Aristophanes, Peace 2.5
      • Aristophanes, The Knights 121
   2. (in repeating another's words quizzingly)
      • Aristophanes, The Knights 344
      • Aristophanes, Peace 198
      • Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 133
      • Aristophanes, The Knights 87
      • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 206
      • Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 136

• “ἰδού”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰδού”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἰδού in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2400 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • behold idem, page 72.
  • see idem, page 748.