Timeline for 'Hark' and 'behold' call attention to what we can hear or see. Is there an equivalent for smell?
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| Nov 4, 2012 at 15:17 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Behold can certainly be used in the same way as Hark, and the KJV uses it at least twice in relation to Christ: John 1:29 and John 19:5. In both cases Christ is seen before attention is drawn to him. | |
| Nov 4, 2012 at 14:56 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'm not sure the fact that sight can be "directed" (physically focussed, as opposed to "given mental attention") really makes any difference to this issue. Hearing is much the same as smelling, in that it's not particularly "focusable" in that sense. The biggest difference I can see is that "Smell!" and "Sniff!" wouldn't normally be used intransitively as imperatives (but I certainly wouldn't say they can't be used thus). | |
| Nov 4, 2012 at 14:45 | history | answered | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |