What is the grammar behind 見よ?


I just started reading a Japanese version of the New Testament when I
encountered this. The English has it as "Behold", but 見よ doesn't seem to be a
command form that I am familiar with. Is this something specific to 見る?




見よ is an older command conjugation of 見る (see
<http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1239056022> if you
can read it).

Basically, [見]{み} is the masu stem of 見る -- used 見ます and 見ない. Drop the part
after the stem and adding よ makes it a type of command.

見ろ is of course also a type of command.

