Usually means: Observe or see with attention.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word behold:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. behold: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. behold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. behold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. behold: Collins English Dictionary
  5. behold: Vocabulary.com
  6. Behold, behold: Wordnik
  7. behold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. behold: Wiktionary
  9. behold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. behold: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. behold: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Behold, behold: Dictionary.com
  13. behold: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. behold: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Behold (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Behold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. behold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. behold: Rhymezone
  19. Behold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. behold: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. behold: Free Dictionary
  22. behold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. behold: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. behold: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. behold: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. behold: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. behold: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. World English Bible Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.
verb:  To contemplate (someone or something).
verb:  (intransitive) To look.

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