Sundor-hálga

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sundor-hálga

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 sundor-hálga

m. A Pharisee, (but in one passage it seems to mean) a scribe:?-Twegen men . . . án wæs sunderhálga, and óðer wæs openlíce synful, Homl. Th. ii. 428, 3: 420, 34: 422, 3. Bóceras and sunderhálgan, Scint. 203, 3. Ða Fariséiscan and sundorhálgan (scribes) hine tó deáðe fordémdon, H. R. 9, 28. Manega ðæra sunderhálgena (Pharisaeorum), Mt. Kmbl. 3, 7. Ðæra wrítera and sundorhálgena, 5, 20. Sunderhálgena, Homl. Th. ii. 216, 26. Ða wǽron of sundorhálgon, Jn. Skt. 1, 24. [Þa sunderhalȝe and þa bocere, O. E. Homl. i. 245, 3. Cf. O. H. Ger. sundir-lebin pharisaei.] sundor-halga

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚢᚾᛞᚩᚱ-ᚻᚪᛚᚷᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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