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to ask.
to ask for something (gen.)
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  • Ær

    man hæbbe þriwa his rihtes gebeden,
      Ll. Th. i. 386, 13.
to ask, make request to a person
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  • Ne sceal nán faran . . . búton hé gebeden sý,

      Ll. Th. ii. 386, 6.

  • Swá swá hé gebeden wæs þurh þá geleáfullan,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 12, 35.
to ask a person for something
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  • þæt þú ne þurfe mé týðian þæs þe þú gebeden eart,

      Gr. D. 28, 9.
to ask for something for a person
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  • Gebide þé miltsunge, Hml.

    Th. ii.

      414, 12.
  • II. of prayer to an object (person or thing) held sacred.
to pray, say a prayer
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  • Andreas þá gebæd,

      Bl. H. 247, 14.

  • Ðús gebiddende, 245, 3. (1 a) reflexive,

    to say one's prayers

    :-- Hé hine gebæd,
      Bl. H. 217, 26.

  • Maria hié gebæd to þǽm gebede þe se engel hire tó cwæþ,

      145, 23.

  • Heó gebæd hig tó þám pápan,

      Shrn. 150, 4.

  • Gebide þe þriwa eást,

      Lch. iii. 60, 15. ꝥ hé
    é

  • Mid þám paternostre hé sceal hine gebiddan,

      Hml. S. 12, 262.

  • Heó wæs hié gebiddende,

      Bl. H. 137, 23 : Hml. S. 7, 224.
to pray to an object
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  • Andreas gebæd tó Drihtne,

      Bl. H. 247, 23.

  • Hí gebǽdon tó Drihtne,

      239, 1. (2 a) reflexive,
with acc. (
or uncertain)
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  • Gebæd ic mé tó him,

      Bl. H. 191, 15.

  • Uton gebiddan ús tó úrum Drihtne,

      139, 31.

  • Gehwá sceal hine gebiddan to his Drihtne ánum

    (Vominum Deum tuum adorabis,

      Mt. 4, 10), Hml. Th. i. 166, 28.

  • Hé wæs simle hine tó Drihtne gebiddende,

      Bl. H. 229, 19.
with dat.
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  • Menn gebiddaþ him tó þyssum beácne (

    the Cross

    ),
      Kr. 83. ꝥ hí
    í
to pray for,
a person
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  • 'Gebide for míne sunu'. . . Se hálga gebæd for þæt seóce cyld,

      Hml. S. 3, 307-11.
  • Gebide for me, 23 b, 718. ꝥ hé for hine gebidde, Bt. proem. II.
a thing
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  • Gebiddaþ for eówrum synnum intervenite pro vestris erratibus, Coll.

    M.

      36, 7.
to pray to, adore, worship
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  • Gebiddað hine

    adorabunt eum,

      Ps. Spl. 44, 13.

  • Se hálga gebæd bilwitne fæder breóstgehygdum,

      An. 998.

  • Hié God and þone heáhengel gebǽdon,

      Bl. H. 201, 13.

  • Ðá ongunnan hí . . . deófulgyld weorþian and gebiddan (worþodon and gebǽdon,

    v. l.) coeperunt adorare simulacra,

      Bd. 3, 30; Sch. 331, 17.

  • Ðú, God, ána tó gebiddene,

      Hml. S. 7, 225.

  • Se Hálga Gást is . . . gebeden and gewuldrod,

      Hml. Th. ii. 598, 9. (4 a)

  • to pray to God for a person

    :-- Gebide nú for mé þone God ðe ðú wurðast,

      Hml. Th. ii. 312, 12.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-biddan.” 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/47245.

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