behold

[US]/bɪˈhəʊld/
[UK]/bɪˈhoʊld/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. gaze at; regard something as
vi. look
int. lo and behold
Word Forms
Past Tensebeheld
Present Participlebeholding
Past Participlebeheld
Third Person Singularbeholds

Phrases & Collocations

behold with awe

behold in amazement

lo and behold

Example Sentences

behold your lord and prince!.

Behold, the new king is crowned.

What a sight to behold!

the botanical gardens were a wonder to behold .

Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.

you took me out and, lo and behold, I got home to find my house had been ransacked.

Behold him as the Lord and giver of spiritual life, the Illuminator, the Instructor, the Comforter, and the Sanctifier.

I walked into the pub and, lo and behold, there was my boss with his wife.

He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) becomes an open disputer!

"Behold, I teach you the overman! The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth!

Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

Personally I don’t think he’s very attractive, but they say beauty’s in the eye of the beholder, don’t they?

Thereupon the Concourse on high addressed Me saying: ‘… Erelong shalt Thou behold with Thine own eyes what no Prophet hath beheld… Be patient, be patient.

If yon would know whatwindeshe shall have, behold the Ascendent and his Lord, whether he be with good or evil Planets, and in what place, and accordingly judge.

Behold, you have been made a priest, consecrated to celebrate Mass!See to it now that you offer sacrifice to God faithfully and devoutly at proper times, and that you conduct yourself blamelessly.

21 If one makes samayama on the form of one's body, obstructing its perceptibility and separating its power of manifestation from the eyes of the beholder, then one's body becomes invisible.

But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;

to behold my figure often in a glass, and thus, if possible, habituate myself by time to tolerate the sight of a human creature;

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