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ge-béd, l. ge-bed, dele <b>II,</b> where for gebed l. gebod,
Wright's OE grammar
§12; §563;
and add:
a prayer to a human being,
request
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  • Miltsa mé, abbud, and gefyl nú óþer gebæd mínre béne,

      Hml. S. 236, 705.
where the person addressed is divine.
prayer, praying
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  • Hús mín hús gebeddes (

    orationis

    ) is.
      Lk. L. 19, 46.

  • Seó stemn þǽre heortan bið swíðe gedréfed on þǽm gebede (

    in prayer

    ),
      Bl. H. 19, 10: 217, 28.

  • On þára apostola gebede

    when the apostles pray,

      141, 3.

  • Þá gebróðor tó gebede hyldon,

      An. 1029.

  • Hé from gebede swíceð, ne mæg gewunian in gebedstówe,

      Jul. 373.

  • Hié on gebed feóllon,

      Gen. 847.
a prayer
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  • Críst sylf sang Pater noster ǽrest and þæt gebedd his leorningcnihtum tǽhte; and on ðám godcundan gebede sýn .VII. gebedu,

      Wlfst. 20, 16.

  • Gebedo oramina (famulus Christi supplex

    oramina

    fudit),
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 93, 50: 64, 47.

  • Gebeodo ðina (of gibeodum ðínum, R.)

    depraecatio tua,

      Lk. L. 1, 13.

  • Gebeadum

    obsecrationibus, 2, 37. (2 a) a single petition :-- Seofon gebedu (-bédu, MS. )

    sint on þám Pater noster. On þám twám formum wordum ne synd náne gebedu, ac sind herunga. . . þæt forme gebed (-béd,
      MS.) is, ' Sý ðín nama gehálgod '. . . þæt óðer gebed (-béd, MS.) is . . . , Hml. Th. i. 262, 21-32.

  • Gebed (-bed,

      MS. ), 264, 16, 29: 266, 19: 268, 5: 270, 7.

  • Gebedu (-bédu,

      MS. ), 270, 17, 18, 26.
a prayer as an act of worship or ritual,
prayer of the church
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  • Hé mid micclum wópe þǽre byrgenne gebæd worhte mid sealmsange and mid óþrum gebedum þe tó þǽre wísan belumpon. Hml. S. 23 b, 745-7.

  • Se þridda cnapa wacode swíðor for ege þonne for his gebedum,

      Vis. Lfc. 47.

  • Hé féng on his gebedo, swá his gewuna

    wæs,

    for þǽr. wæs án forehús æt þǽre cyrcan duru, 32. v. ǽfen-, cneów-, in-, úht-, wíg-gebed.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-béd.” 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/47180.

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