ἰδού
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἰδοῦ (idoû), aorist middle imperative second singular form of ὁράω (horáō, “to see, to find out, to make sure”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /i.dǔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈdu/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈðu/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈðu/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈðu/
Adverb
ἰδού • (idoú)
- lo!, behold!
- Sophocles, Ajax 870
- (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
- (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
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.