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Lexicon :: Strong's G2400 - idou

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ἰδού
Transliteration
idou (Key)
Pronunciation
id-oo'
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Part of Speech
particle
Root Word (Etymology)
Second person singular imperative middle voice of εἴδω (G1492)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἰδού idoú, id-oo'; second person singular imperative middle voice of G1492; used as imperative lo!; --behold, lo, see.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 213x

The KJV translates Strong's G2400 in the following manner: behold (181x), lo (29x), see (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 213x
The KJV translates Strong's G2400 in the following manner: behold (181x), lo (29x), see (3x).

  1. behold, see, lo

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἰδού idoú, id-oo'; second person singular imperative middle voice of G1492; used as imperative lo!; --behold, lo, see.
STRONGS G2400:
ἰδού, a demonstrative particle (in Greek writings from Sophocles down), found in the N. T. especially in the Gospels of Matthew and of Luke, used very often in imitation of the Hebrew הִנֵּה, and giving a peculiar vivacity to the style by bidding the reader or hearer to attend to what is said: "Behold! See! Lo!" It is inserted in the discourse after a genitive absolutely, Matthew 1:20; Matthew 2:1, 13; Matthew 9:18; Matthew 12:46; Matthew 17:5; Matthew 26:47; Matthew 28:11. καί ἰδού is used, when at the close of a narrative something new is introduced, Matthew 2:9; Matthew 3:16; Matthew 4:11; Matthew 8:2, 24, 29, 32, 34; Matthew 9:2f, 20; Matthew 12:10; Matthew 15:22; Matthew 17:3; Matthew 19:16; Matthew 26:51; Matthew 27:51; Matthew 28:2, 7; Luke 1:20, 31, 36; Luke 2:9 (R G L Tr brackets),Luke 2:25; Luke 9:30,38f; 10:25; 14:2; 24:13; Acts 12:7; Acts 16:1; when a thing is specified which is unexpected yet sure, 2 Corinthians 6:9 (καί ἰδίου ζῶμεν, and nevertheless we live), cf. Matthew 7:4; when a thing is specified which seems impossible and yet occurs, Luke 11:41; Acts 27:24. The simple ἰδού is the exclamation of one pointing out something, Matthew 12:2, 47 (WH here in marginal reading only); Matthew 13:3; Matthew 24:26; Mark 3:32; Luke 2:34; and calling attention, Mark 15:35 (T Tr WH ἴδε); Luke 22:10; John 4:35; 1 Corinthians 15:51; 2 Corinthians 5:17; James 5:9; Jude 1:14; Revelation 1:7; Revelation 9:12; Revelation 11:14; Revelation 16:15; Revelation 22:7 (Rec.); in other places it is equivalent to observe or consider: Matthew 10:16; Matthew 11:8; Matthew 19:27; Matthew 20:18; Matthew 22:4; Mark 10:28, 33; Mark 14:41; Luke 2:48; Luke 7:25; Luke 18:28, 31, etc.; also καί ἰδού, Matthew 28:20; Luke 13:30; ἰδού γάρ, Luke 1:44, 48; Luke 2:10; Luke 6:23; Luke 17:21; Acts 9:11; 2 Corinthians 7:11; ἰδού where examples are adduced: James 3:4ff; 5:4,7,11; for the Hebrew הִנְנִי, so that it includes the copula: Luke 1:38; equivalent to here I am: Acts 9:10; Hebrews 2:13. ἰδού is inserted in the midst of a speech, Matthew 23:34 (here WH marginal reading Ἰδού (see the commentaries)); Luke 13:16; Acts 2:7; Acts 13:11; Acts 20:22, 25. The passages of the O. T. containing the particle which are quoted in the New are these: Matthew 1:23; Matthew 11:10; Matthew 12:18; Matthew 21:5; Mark 1:2; Luke 7:27; John 13:15; Romans 9:33; Hebrews 2:13; Hebrews 8:8; Hebrews 10:7, 9; 1 Peter 2:6. Like the Hebrew הִנֵּה, ἰδού and καί ἰδού stand before a nominative which is not followed by a finite verb, in such a way as to include the copula or predicate (cf. Buttmann, 139 (121f)): e. g., was heard, Matthew 3:17; is, is or was here, exists, etc., Matthew 12:10 L T Tr WH, 41; Mark 13:21 R G L; Luke 5:12, 18; Luke 7:37; Luke 11:31; Luke 13:11 (R G add ἦν); Luke 17:21; 19:2,20; 22:38,47; 23:50; John 19:26 (Rec., 27 R G); Acts 8:27, 36; 2 Corinthians 6:2; Revelation 6:2, 5, 8; Revelation 7:9 (not L); Revelation 12:3; 14:14; 19:11; 21:3; is approaching, Matthew 25:6 G L T Tr WH (Rec. adds ἔρχεται); but also in such a way as to have simply a demonstrative force: Matthew 11:19; Luke 7:34.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
1:20; 1:23; 2:1; 2:9; 2:13; 3:16; 3:17; 4:11; 7:4; 8:2; 8:24; 8:29; 8:32; 8:34; 9:2; 9:18; 9:20; 10:16; 11:8; 11:10; 11:19; 12:2; 12:10; 12:10; 12:18; 12:46; 12:47; 13:3; 15:22; 17:3; 17:5; 19:16; 19:27; 20:18; 21:5; 22:4; 23:34; 24:26; 25:6; 26:47; 26:51; 27:51; 28:2; 28:7; 28:11; 28:20
Mark
1:2; 3:32; 10:28; 10:33; 13:21; 14:41; 15:35
Luke
1:20; 1:31; 1:36; 1:38; 1:44; 1:48; 2:9; 2:10; 2:25; 2:34; 2:48; 5:12; 5:18; 6:23; 7:25; 7:27; 7:34; 7:37; 9:30; 9:38; 10:25; 11:31; 11:41; 13:11; 13:16; 13:30; 14:2; 17:21; 17:21; 18:28; 18:31; 19:2; 19:20; 22:10; 22:38; 22:47; 23:50; 24:13
John
4:35; 13:15; 19:26
Acts
2:7; 8:27; 8:36; 9:10; 9:11; 12:7; 13:11; 16:1; 20:22; 20:25; 27:24
Romans
9:33
1 Corinthians
15:51
2 Corinthians
5:17; 6:2; 6:9; 7:11
Hebrews
2:13; 2:13; 8:8; 10:7; 10:9
James
3:4; 5:4; 5:7; 5:9; 5:11
1 Peter
2:6
Jude
1:14
Revelation
1:7; 6:2; 6:5; 6:8; 7:9; 9:12; 11:14; 12:3; 14:14; 16:15; 19:11; 21:3; 22:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2400 matches the Greek ἰδού (idou),
which occurs 1,018 times in 979 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 20 (Gen 1:29–Gen 30:3)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:31 - Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - Then the LORD God said, “Look, the human beings[fn] have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 - So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. Yes, I will wipe them all out along with the earth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:17 - “Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:9 - “I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - “Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19 - Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ and allow me to take her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and get out of here!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:9 - The whole countryside is open to you. Take your choice of any section of the land you want, and we will separate. If you want the land to the left, then I’ll take the land on the right. If you prefer the land on the right, then I’ll go to the left.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying darkness came down over him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram, “The LORD has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai’s proposal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - Abram replied, “Look, she is your servant, so deal with her as you see fit.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:11 - And the angel also said, “You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael (which means ‘God hears’), for the LORD has heard your cry of distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - So that well was named Beer-lahai-roi (which means “well of the Living One who sees me”). It can still be found between Kadesh and Bered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:4 - “This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - But God replied, “No—Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a son for you. You will name him Isaac,[fn] and I will confirm my covenant with him and his descendants as an everlasting covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - As for Ishmael, I will bless him also, just as you have asked. I will make him extremely fruitful and multiply his descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:2 - He looked up and noticed three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran to meet them and welcomed them, bowing low to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9 - “Where is Sarah, your wife?” the visitors asked.
“She’s inside the tent,” Abraham replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - “My lords,” he said, “come to my home to wash your feet, and be my guests for the night. You may then get up early in the morning and be on your way again.”
“Oh no,” they replied. “We’ll just spend the night out here in the city square.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - See, there is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead; don’t you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - “All right,” the angel said, “I will grant your request. I will not destroy the little village.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:28 - He looked out across the plain toward Sodom and Gomorrah and watched as columns of smoke rose from the cities like smoke from a furnace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - The next morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let’s get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But that night God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are a dead man, for that woman you have taken is already married!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - Then Abimelech said, “Look over my land and choose any place where you would like to live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - And he said to Sarah, “Look, I am giving your ‘brother’ 1,000 pieces of silver[fn] in the presence of all these witnesses. This is to compensate you for any wrong I may have done to you. This will settle any claim against me, and your reputation is cleared.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 - Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called.
“Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 - Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:11 - At that moment the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:13 - Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:20 - Soon after this, Abraham heard that Milcah, his brother Nahor’s wife, had borne Nahor eight sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - See, I am standing here beside this spring, and the young women of the town are coming out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - Before he had finished praying, he saw a young woman named Rebekah coming out with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham’s brother Nahor and his wife, Milcah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - See, I am standing here beside this spring. This is my request. When a young woman comes to draw water, I will say to her, “Please give me a little drink of water from your jug.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:51 - Here is Rebekah; take her and go. Yes, let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has directed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:32 - “Look, I’m dying of starvation!” said Esau. “What good is my birthright to me now?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:1 - One day when Isaac was old and turning blind, he called for Esau, his older son, and said, “My son.”
“Yes, Father?” Esau replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:2 - “I am an old man now,” Isaac said, “and I don’t know when I may die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:18 - So Jacob took the food to his father. “My father?” he said.
“Yes, my son,” Isaac answered. “Who are you—Esau or Jacob?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:27 - So Jacob went over and kissed him. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. He said, “Ah! The smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors, which the LORD has blessed!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:39 - Finally, his father, Isaac, said to him,
“You will live away from the richness of the earth,
and away from the dew of the heaven above.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - But Rebekah heard about Esau’s plans. So she sent for Jacob and told him, “Listen, Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:15 - What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - He saw a well in the distance. Three flocks of sheep and goats lay in an open field beside it, waiting to be watered. But a heavy stone covered the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - “Is he doing well?” Jacob asked.
“Yes, he’s well,” they answered. “Look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the flock now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - But when Jacob woke up in the morning—it was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob raged at Laban. “I worked seven years for Rachel! Why have you tricked me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - Then Rachel told him, “Take my maid, Bilhah, and sleep with her. She will bear children for me,[fn] and through her I can have a family, too.”

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