Ge-hweorfan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-hweorfan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-hweorfan
- Add: I. trans. (I) to turn, direct :-- Gif hié dātrumnesse dǣre Godes giefe him tō unnyte gehweorfad si acceptae incolumitatis gratiam ad usum nequitiae inclinent, Past. 247, 8. (2) to overturn :-- Hē gehwerf[d] subvertit (insidias impiorum), Kent. Gl. 315. Āhwerfdon vel gehwurfan evertere, Wrt. Voc. ii. 144, 28. (3) to exchange. Cf. ge-hwearf :-- Hió becwid him hyre goldfāgan treów-enan cuppan, þæt hē īce his beáh mid þam golde, oþþe hī mon æt him gehweorfe mid . xvi. mancussum reádes goldes. Cht. Th. 536, 20. II. intrans. (1) to return (a) to a place :-- Hē gehwearf þonan tō his āgnum, Chr. 584 ; P. 294, 6. Hig gehwurfon (regressi sunt) on Hieru-salem, Lk. 24, 52. Of þām æcere gehworfenum regresso de agro, 17, 7. (b) to a position, condition, &c. :-- ꝥ hē geearnode, ꝥ hē eft gehwurfe tō his fæder gife and freóndscipe, Gr. D. 238, 13. (2) of action, to turn (a) to a person :-- Gehweorfen tō ;mē þā þe hyldu tō dē āhtan convertantur ad me qui piment te, Ps. Th. 118, 79. (b) to action : -- Ðæt hē gehweorfe tō hreówsunga ad poenitentiae lamenta conversus, Past. 167, 18. (3) of happening, (a) to be transferred, pass to :-- Asiria anwald gehwearf on Mēdas Arbatus regni summam ad Medos transtulit, Ors. 2, I ; S. 60, 17 : I. 8 ; S. 42, 6. (b) to turn back, be averted :-- Gesecge man hwǽr ǽnig gewin ǽr þǽm crístendome swá gehwurfe, gif hit ongunnen wǽre yui praeteritis temporibus de compres-sione bellorum simile probarit exemplum, Ors. 6, 4; S. 260, 7. [O. H. Ger. ge-hwerban conuerti.]