ἰδού

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.dǔː/ → /iˈðu/ → /iˈðu/

• (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)

1. 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • behold idem, page 72.
  • see idem, page 748.