Be-rýfan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

= be-reófan

be-rýfan

to bereave; spoliare, privare :-- Ðá hí þohton þeóden-stóles rícne berýfan then they thought to bereave the powerful of his throne, Exon. 84 a; Th. 317, 9; Mód. 63. DER. reófan to reave, rob, bereave. be-ryfan