Ge-bod
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-bod
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-bod
- Add :-- Mid egeslicum gebode (imperio terrente, An. Ox. 1940. (1) an edict, order, a mandate of temporal or ecclesiastical authority :-- Gif hwelc preóst ofer biscopes gebod mæssige, gilde for þám gebode .xx. ór, Ll. Th. ii. 290, 17. Hí eów gedwealdon mid þám manigfealdum gebodum, i. 56, 17. Gebodum edictis (Claudii Caesaris), An. Ox. 4130. Gebodo edicta (Diocletiani), Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 20: 31, 25. Ǽlc . . . þára þe þá gebodu gehýrde, Ll. Th. i. 232, 12. (2) a command, an order of the Deity :-- Gif ꝥ sóþ is . . . hit wæs unnet gebod . . . ꝥ God beád. Bt. 41, 3 ; F. 246, 32. 'þis bebod se Hǽlend ús sealde . . . ' 'Gif þis gebod eów wǽre geseald fram eówrum Drihtne . . . ,' Bl. H. 233, 21. Drihten, eall ic hit áræfnie for þínum gebode, 241, 33. ge-bod