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Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-hófian

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Definitions

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1 be-hófian

p. ode; pp. od; egere, indigere. Impersonally, it BEHOVETH, it concerns, it is needful or necessary; oportet, interest :-- Mycel wund behófaþ mycles lǽcedómes a great wound has need of a great remedy, Bd. 4, 25; S. 599, 40. He mægenes behófaþ gódra gúþrinca he requires strength of good warriors, Beo. Th. 5288; B. 2647 : Exon. 98 a; Th. 367, 1; Seel. 1. Ðeáh ða scearpþanclan witan ðisse Engliscan geþeódnesse ne behófien though the sharp-minded wise men may not have need of this English translation, MS. Cot. Faust A. x. 150 b; Lchdm. iii. 440, 32. Behófaþ oportet, Jn. Lind. War. 3, 7. DER. a-behófian. be-hofian
Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᚻᚩᚠᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Beo.
Beowulf
Cot.
Cottonian Manuscripts
Exon.
Exeter Book
Jn.
Gospel of St. John (OE translation)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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