Ge-béd-man

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-béd-man

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-mannes;

ge-béd-man
m. A prayer-man, one whose duty it is to pray, one of the clergy, worshipper; ōrātor, adōrātor :-- He sceal hæbban gebéd-men and fyrdmen and weorcmen he must have prayer-men and soldiers and workmen, Bt. 17; Fox 58, 33, Sóþe gebéd-men gebiddap fæder on gáste and on sóþfæstnesse vēri adōrātōres adōrābunt Patrem in spīrĭtu et vērĭtāte, Jn, Bos. 4, 23. ge-bed-man
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