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the first person of the Trinity, God the Father
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  • Be þám áncennedan suna þæs heáhfæder (heán fæder,

    v. l.) de Unigenito summi Patris,

      Gr. D. 240, 25: Wlfst. 230, 29.

  • Martiras herigað héhfæder,

      Sat. 656.
a patriarch of the Old Testament
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  • Iacób se heáhfæder,

      Ll. Th. i. 196, 2.

  • Arones þæs heáhfæder,

      Bl. H. 161, 28.

  • Rachel hátte Iacðbes wíf ðæs heáhfæderes,

      Hml. Th. i. 84, 28.

  • Ealra óþerra heáhfædera mægen hé (

    John the Baptist

    ) oferstígeþ,
      Bl. H. 167, 23.

  • Heáhfædra fela,

      Hö. 47.

  • Apostolas wið þám heáh-fædrum and wið wítgum,

      Ps. Th. 44, 17.

  • Þurh þá mǽran wítegan and heáhfæderas, Ll. Lbmn. 413, 10. (1 a) in a special sense,

    one of the twelve sons of Jacob :

    — Twelf tída beóð on ðám dæge, and twelf mónðas on geáre; twelf heáhfæderas sind, twelf wítegan, twelf apostoli,
      Hml. Th. i. 396, 9.
in Christian times,
a father of the church
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  • Rǽde him mon líf þǽra heáhfædera (

    vitas patrum

    ),
      R. Ben. 66, 17.
the chief of a religious community, an archimandrite
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  • Héhfæder, láreów

    archimandrita, i. princeps ouium,

      An. Ox. 3720.
a patriarch in a heathen community
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  • Hire (

    St. Margaret's

    ) fæder wæs hǽþenra monna heáhfæder (of ꝥ heðene folc patriarke ant prince,
      Marh. 2, 14;
    patriarch he was wel hei, Marg. 4; erat gentilium patriarcha et idola adorabat, Hml. A. 209, 25), Shrn. 101, 11.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “heáh-fæder.” 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/51896.

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