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the overarching vault of sky
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  • Ic gedó þæt eów bið ǽgðer heard ge heofene ge eorðe

    dabo vobis coelum desuper sicut ferrum et terram aeneam, Lev.

    • 26, 19
      • .

  • Sí þé heofene swilce ór and eorðe swilce ísen,

    • Deut. 28, 23
      • .

  • Under þǽre heofenan fæstnisse,

    • Gen. I. 20
      • .

  • Geseah hé standan áne hlǽdre fram eorðan tó heofenan,

    • 28, 12.

  • God hét þá fæstnisse heofenan,

    • I. 8
      • .

  • On ðám óðrum dæge gesceóp God heofenan, seó ðe is geháten

    firmamentum,

    • Lch. iii. 232, 13
      • .

  • Hé getimbrode ðá heálican heofenan,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 586, 29.
as the expanse in which the stars are fixed:
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  • Seó heofene and ealla tungla heore rina behealdað

    • Solil. H. 9, 14.

  • Hí

    (the planets)

    ne synd ná fæste on þǽre rodorlican heofonan swá swá óðre tunglan,

    • Angl. vii. 14, 121
      • .
the region of the atmosphere in which clouds float, moisture is stored, birds fly, &c.
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  • Eal woruld winneð ongeán þá oferhogan . . . Seó heofone ús winð wið þonne heó ús sendeð styrnlice stormas,

    • Wlfst. 92, 16
      • .

  • Þǽre heofenan wæterþeótan wǽron geopenode,

    • Gen. 7, II
      • :
    • 8, 2.

  • Hwí is ꝥ tácn

    (the rainbow)

    on þǽre lyftenan (-ran, MS.) heofonan

    (cf. arcum meum ponam in nubibus et erit signum,

    • Gen. 9, 13)

    gesewen ?,

    • Angl. vii. 38, 357.
the region beyond the visible sky (the combination heaven and earth denotes the universe)
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  • In þám dæge heofene and eorðe cwaciað.

    • Wlfst. 182, 9.

  • Nán man Godes mihte ne forflíhð on nánum heolstrum heofenan oððe eorðan oþþe sǽ ðriddan

    (nec judicium superni Gubernatoris uspiam effugere queo,

    • Vit. Cuth. c. 24
      • ),
    • Hml. Th. ii. 146, 31
      • .

  • On anginne gesceóp God heofenan and eorðan,

    • Gen. l, l.
the celestial abode of immortal beings
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  • Swá micel is betwux gódum mannum and yfelum, swá micel swá bið betwux heofenan and eorðan,

    • Hml. Th. i. 262, 20
      • .

  • Ic geseah englas ferigan gesǽlige sáwle tó heálicre heofenan,

    • ii. 150, 27.

  • Godes ríce on rodorlicere heofonan,

    • 330, 27.
one of the seven heavens recognized by the Jews:
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  • Hé becóm tó ðǽre ðriddan heofonan,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 3. 52, 10
      • .

  • Þá óðre heofenan synd ungesewenlice and mannum unásmeágendlice. Synd swá þeáh má heofenan swá swá se wítega cwæð, 'Coeli coelorum', ꝥ is heofena heofenan. Eác se apostol Paulus áwrát ꝥ hé wæs gelǽdd oð ðá þriddan heofenan,

    • Lch. iii. 232, 21-26
      • :
    • Angl. viii. 310, 2
      • :
    • Ps. L. 148, 4
      • .
used in forms of asseveration or in oaths
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  • Sé ðe swereð on heofonan, hé swereð on Godes þrymsetle,

    • Mt. 23, 22
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Bosworth, Joseph. “heofone.” 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/52286.

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