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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-offrian

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1 ge-offrian

p. ode; pp. od To offer, sacrifice :-- He hét hine his leófan sunu geoffrian Gode to láce he bade him offer his dear son as a sacrifice to God, Btwk. Scrd. 23, 3. Abel geoffrode ða sélostan lác Gode Abel offered the best sacrifices to God, 18, 5: 22, 9: Gen. 8, 20. Ðæt hí be hreówsunge Gode geoffrodon that they should sacrifice to God by penitence, Homl. Th. i. 68, 17. Geoffrod sacrificed, Le
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ᚷᛖ-ᚩᚠᚠᚱᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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