ἰδού

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.dǔː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈdu/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈðu/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈðu/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈðu/

Adverb

ἰδού • (idoú)

lo!, behold!
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 870
1. (in giving or offering a thing) there! take it!
  - 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 776
  - 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 143
  - 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 825
  - 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 2.5
  - 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 121
2. (in repeating another's words quizzingly)
  - 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 344
  - 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 198
  - 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 133
  - 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 87
  - 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 206
  - 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 136

References

“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.

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