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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
behold
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
joy
▪ The horticultural efforts of individual residents are a joy to behold, and reflect great credit on those concerned.
sight
▪ From Mount Ampenan, and over the rocky coastline and long golden beaches is a sight to behold.
▪ When they were on, they were a sight to behold.&038;.
▪ Nor was it just the execution that attracted them, for the procession itself was a sight to behold.
▪ The Transit Authority meetings are a sight to behold.
▪ His face was not a pleasant sight to behold on awakening.
▪ It was a sight to behold!
▪ All in all a lovely sight to behold.
▪ Four feet eleven inches of skin and bone, but a terrible sight to behold when roused.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a (beautiful/strange/frightening etc) sight to behold
lo and behold
▪ When we arrived, lo and behold, there was Dave sitting in the front row.
▪ And, lo and behold, it was another rich guy.
▪ So he started exercising regularly and eating low-calorie foods and, lo and behold, trimmed down to a svelte 290.
▪ Treat the wasps with an antibiotic and, lo and behold, two genders reappear among the offspring.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His face was not a pleasant sight to behold on awakening.
▪ If he was not horrible to look at, then he was cruel to forbid her ever to behold him.
▪ It is a popular field of collecting, pleasant to behold and with a spice of magic about it.
▪ Nor was it just the execution that attracted them, for the procession itself was a sight to behold.
▪ The New Victory is glorious to behold.
▪ The rich beauty of Audley End is a pleasure to behold.
▪ Yesterday the sun shone until everything he beheld revealed its dazzle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Behold

Behold \Be*hold"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beheld(p. p. formerly Beholden, now used only as a p.

  1. ); p. pr. & v

  2. n. Beholding.] [OE. bihalden, biholden, AS. behealdan to hold, have in sight; pref. be- + healdan to hold, keep; akin to G. behalten to hold, keep. See Hold.] To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes.

    When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
    --Num. xxi. 9.

    Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
    --John. i. 29.

    Syn: To scan; gaze; regard; descry; view; discern.

Behold

Behold \Be*hold"\, v. i. To direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to look; to see.

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne, . . . a lamb as it had been slain.
--Rev. v. 6.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
behold

Old English bihaldan (West Saxon behealdan) "give regard to, hold in view," also "to keep hold of, to belong to," from be- + haldan, healdan (see hold). Related: Beheld; beholding. A common West Germanic compound, compare Old Saxon bihaldan "hold, keep," Old Frisian bihalda, Old High German bihaltan, German behalten, but "[t]he application to watching, looking, is confined to English" [OED].

Wiktionary
behold

vb. (context transitive English) To see, or to look at.

WordNet
behold
  1. v. see with attention; "behold Christ!" [syn: lay eyes on]

  2. [also: beholden, beheld]

Wikipedia
Behold

Behold is a brand of furniture polish produced by Nakoma Products, LLC. Behold furniture polish and Endust dusting aid were previously produced by Sara Lee. When Drackett was sold to S. C. Johnson & Son in 1992, these two products, Endust and Behold, were sold to Sara Lee. In 2010 the product lines Endust and Behold were sold to Nakoma Products LLC. Located in Coal City, Illinois. The company introduced a new glass cleaner and oven/grill cleaner under the Behold brand name in 2012. S. C. Johnson produces Pledge, a similar product to Behold.

William R. Johnson, now president of H.J. Heinz, was assistant brand manager for Behold at Drackett, 1974-1977.

The National Institutes of Health household products database lists Behold as containing propane and butane and naphtha. Propane and isobutane blends are used as propellants for household cleaners.

Aerosol furniture polishes apply a thin layer of silicone oils, rather than the thicker, more durable layer of solid waxes. Fine furniture craftsmen warn that the silicone oils can penetrate through tiny cracks in the finish and make eventual refinishing very difficult.

Behold (album)

Behold is the third studio album from Christian rock band My Epic. The album released on December 10, 2013 by Facedown Records, and Matt Goldman was the producer. This album had commercial charting successes, and it garnered critical acclamation.

Usage examples of "behold".

All who receive influx from heaven and acknowledge divine providence, especially those who have become spiritual through reformation, on beholding events taking a wonderful course see providence as it were from an interior acknowledgment and confess it.

Consequently, if the sinner sins by receiving the sacrament, it seems that he would sin by beholding it, which is manifestly untrue, since the Church exposes this sacrament to be seen and adored by all.

For as I lay sleeping betwixt the strokes of night, a dream of the night stood by my bed and beheld me with a glance so fell that I was all adrad and quaking with fear.

I deserved a kick in the pants for my meddlesomeness, but lo and behold, three weeks later a fragile blue aerogramme with a Swiss postmark arrived from the Montreux-Palace Hotel.

To think how when I find this lucky star, And stand beneath it, like the Wise of old, I shall mount upward on a golden car, Girt round with glory unto worlds afar, While Earth amazed the wonder shall behold, That bears me unto happiness untold!

Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered, and they took it for a sign, and called it Gil-Estel, the Star of High Hope.

There was no light save the light shed abroad by the flashes of the blade, and in these they beheld the air suffocated with Afrites and Genii in a red and brown and white heat, followers of Karaz.

Just as she was serving them, lo and behold, over the threshold came their neighbor AH Aga with his stocking and knitting needles and with the green bag given him by Renio slung around his shoulders.

Juss, enforcing his half frozen limbs to resume the ascent, beheld a sight of woe too terrible for the eye: a young man, helmed and graithed in dark iron, a black-a-moor with goggle-eyes and white teeth agrin, who held by the neck a fair young lady kneeling on her knees and clasping his as in supplication, and he most bloodily brandishing aloft his spear of six foot of length as minded to reave her of her life.

Now beholding the scarred face of him, the tender, smiling lips, the adoration in his grey eyes, she trembled amain and, swaying to him, rested her hands on his mailed shoulders.

Khan turned away from his view of the city to behold, to his surprise and dismay, the Lady Ament striding toward him across the rampart.

Vpon the other Anaglyph, I did behold a merrie and pleasant maiesticall personage, like a yoong fat boye, crowned with two folding serpents, one white, and the other blacke, tied into a knot.

And lo and behold, Leon spotted the agent who had gone in after Ashling on -Saturday!

He beheld the living mystery, whirled into the dance of pure light as the adepts interceded, calling down the singing powers sent forth by Ath Creator.

British fans put on displays of public affection that the staid, puritanical American attendees beheld in bemused astonishment.