[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/aramaic/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%95/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Aramaic](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/aramaic/) / [א](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/aramaic/alef/)‎ / אֲרוּ‎

# אֲרוּ

Biblical Aramaic

**lo** — used 5 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lo [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲרוּ: interj. lo [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** interj. lo (of uncertain der.: only Biblical Aramaic (? Nab., v. CIS ii. 186); אֲלוּ, p. 1080, and NH הֲרֵי see! here ! Ab 3:4 al., are perhaps allied), וַאֲרוּ Dn 7:2 הָזֵי הֲרֵית … וַאֲרוּ, v 5, 6, 7, 13, always in description of a vision (cf.אֲלוּ).

### Jastrow 1903

אֲרוּ: lo!, behold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5d5_5bc/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (ארי; v. אֲלוּ, cmp. הֲרֵי) lo!, behold. Dan. VII, 6; 7; 13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (18 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lo! (5).

## In the verses

[Daniel 7:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.2/#tree)

עָנֵ֤ה דָנִיֵּאל֙ וְאָמַ֔ר חָזֵ֥ה הֲוֵ֛ית בְּחֶזְוִ֖י עִם־לֵֽילְיָ֑א וַאֲר֗וּ אַרְבַּע֙ רוּחֵ֣י שְׁמַיָּ֔א מְגִיחָ֖ן לְיַמָּ֥א רַבָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].replying Daniel and.\[was\] saying seeing I.was in vision my with the night and lo! the.four the.winds of the.heavens \[were\].stirring.up (et) the sea (the) great

*JPS 1917:* Daniel spoke and said: I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven broke forth upon the great sea.

[Daniel 7:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.13/#tree)

חָזֵ֤ה הֲוֵית֙ בְּחֶזְוֵ֣י לֵֽילְיָ֔א וַאֲרוּ֙ עִם־עֲנָנֵ֣י שְׁמַיָּ֔א כְּבַ֥ר אֱנָ֖שׁ אָתֵ֣ה הֲוָ֑ה וְעַד־עַתִּ֤יק יֽוֹמַיָּא֙ מְטָ֔ה וּקְדָמ֖וֹהִי הַקְרְבֽוּהִי׃

*Word for word:* seeing I.was in the.visions of the.night and lo! with the.clouds of the.heavens like a.son of.man coming he.was and to the.\[one\].ancient of.(the) days he.reached and before him they brought.him.near

*JPS 1917:* I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man, and he came even to the Ancient of days, and he was brought near before Him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5e8_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).