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ge-hwyrfan

  • verb [ weak ]
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ge-hwyrfan, -hwerfan, -hwirfan, -hwierfan; p. de; pp. ed
To change, turn, convert; mutare, convertere
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  • Hyra woruld wæs gehwyrfed

    their world [life] was changed,

    • Cd. 17; Th. 21, 3
      • ;
    • Gen. 318
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  • Flód gehwerfde ða ceastre

    a flood overturned the city,

    • Shrn. 77, 12
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  • Hwylc ðonne géna gehwyrfed byþ

    quoadusque justitia convertatur in judicium,

    • Ps. Th. 93, 14
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  • Hí gehwyrfde synd

    conversi sunt,

    • Ps. Spl. 77, 46
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    • Exon. l0 b; Th. 12, 20
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    • Cri. 188
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  • Mín drihten, ðú ðe gehwyrfest ealle sáule

    my Lord, thou who convertest all souls,

    • Blickl. Homl. 249, 14
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  • Manige Israhela bearna he gehwyrfþ to heora drihtne

    many of the children of Israel he shall turn to their Lord,

    • 165, 13
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  • Ic ðé bidde for ðínum naman ðæt ðú gehwyrfe on me ealle eáþmódnesse ðínra beboda

    I beseech thee for thy name that thou devolve on me all submission to thy commands,

    • 147, 11
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  • Paulinus gehwerfde Édwine Norþhymbra cyning to fulwihte

    Paulinus converted Edwin king of Northumbria to christianity,

    • Chr. 601; Erl. 20, 12
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  • Hér wæs Paulus gehwierfed

    in this year Paul was converted,

    • 34; Erl. 6, 14 : 30
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    • Erl. 6, 9
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  • His word bióþ gehwirfdo to unnyttre ofersprǽce his words will be perverted to useless loquacity, Past. 21; Swt. 164, 18; Cot. MS. Hí wurdon gehwyrfede to deórwurðum gimmum

    they were turned into precious stones,

    • Homl. Th. i. 64, 5
      • :
    • Th. An. 28, 35
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  • On heáf gehwyrfede

    turned to mourning,

    • Blickl. Homl. 195, 17 : 233, 5
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  • Ic wæs gehwyrfed on mínne líchoman

    I was restored to my body,

    • 155, 25
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-hwyrfan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/14813.

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