Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /iðú/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iðú/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iðú/

Adverb

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

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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.