Ge-beorgan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-beorgan

Add; I. to protect, (1) to prevent the happening of evil (acc.) to an object (dat.), ward off from :-- Ic mé gúðbordes sweng gebearh, Gen. 2694. Ðis is seó líhtingc þe ic wylle eallon folce gebeorg-an þe hig ǽr þyson mid gedrehte wǽron this is the alleviation by which I will protect all the people from those things with which they were before troubled, Ll. Th. i. 412, 19. [See also Ps. Th. 93, 12 : 59, 4 in Dict.] (1 a) with dat. of object alone, to protect, save, guard :-- þonne gebyrhst (-birhst, ) ðú þínre ágenre sáwle, Wlfst. 7, 9. Ðæs líchoman lǽcas . . . ge ðǽm líchoman gebeorgað, ge eác ðá mettrymnesse áfliémað, Past. 457, 5- Hé heom ætbærst and him sylfan gebearh þǽr þǽr hé þá mihte, Chr. 1052; P. 178, 30. ꝥ man þisum earde gebeorgan (-beorhgan, v. l.) mihte, ǽr hé mid ealle fordón wurðe, 1006; P. 137, 20. Hé wile gebeorhgan (-byrgan, -beorgan, -burgan, v. ll.) þám þe hym sýn gecorene, Wlfst. 19, 10. Swá man mæg stýran and eác þǽre sáwle gebeorgan, Ll. Th. i. 394, 16: Gen. 1838. in the passive the object of the action is in the dative :-- For ðæs láreówes wísdóm unwísum hiéremonnum bið geborgen, Past. 29, 6. Him swá geborgen sý heora unwilles, heora tó fela ne losien. Ll. Th. i. 274, 4. Gyf hé for slǽwðe his hláfordes forgýmð, ne bið his ágnum wel geborgen, 440, 16 : Dan. 436. (2) to protect an object (acc.) from (wiþ ) :-- Hí wið cyle and wið hǽton hí sylfe geburgon, Hml. S. 23, 420. Heó si geborgen wið ealra bealwa gehwylc, Lch. i. 402, 10. Ne wyrð nǽfre folces wíse wel gerǽde, ne wið God well geborgen (secure from incurring God's anger. Cf. ge-beorglic), on þám earde þe man wóh gestreón lufað, Ll. Th. ii. 312, 28. (2 a) without object, to protect from :-- Hé mihte wið deáð gebeorgan and deáð forbúgan, Wlfst. 23, 16. (3) combining the construction of (1) and (2) :-- Hé wið cwealme gebearh cnihtum (cf. beorgan; I. 2 for dat.) on ofne lácende líg he protected the youths from death, in the fiery furnace, kept the leaping flame from them, Dan. 475. II. to prevent the doing of ill, guard against, v. beorgan ; III :-- Gebeorh ꝥ hié ungemeltnesse ne þrowian see that they do nothing to produce indigestion Lch. ii. 184, 11. II a. to abstain from wrong-doing :-- Nis on ǽnigne tíman unriht álýfed, and þeáh man sceal freólstídon . . . georn-lícost gebyrgan, Ll. Th. i. 398, 19. ge-beorgan

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