or, INDICATING.
The Calling Attention to by making a Star or Mark.
As’-ter-is’-mos. Greek ἀστερισμὁς, a calling of attention to a thing by making an asterisk (from ἀστήρ, asteer, a star).
A marking by putting a star {*}, in order to direct particular attention to a passage or statement. Hence the figure is used when we employ (not an asterisk*) but some word, which answers the same purpose, in directing the eye and the heart to some particular point or subject, such as “Lo!” “Behold!”
As a concordance will furnish a complete list of these, it is not necessary for us to give examples. We will only note that the word “ behold” is not a mere interjection, but is really a verb, telling us actually to look and see, and observe and note attentively.
“ Behold ” seems to be specially the word used by the Holy Spirit as the Inspirer of Scripture: while “ Verily ” (amen) is the word used by the Lord Jesus; and “ Yea ” is the word of God the Father.
Psa.133:1—“ Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”
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From “Figures Of Speech Used In The Bible” by E. W. Bullinger,
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