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ge-strangian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
ge-strangian, -strongian; p. ode, ade; pp. od, ad [strangian to strengthen]
Wright's OE grammar
§536;
To make strong, strengthen, confirm, establish; rōbŏrāre, corrōbŏrāre, confortāre, conflrmāre
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  • Ðá wolde he heora geleáfan gestrangian and getrymman

    then would he strengthen and confirm their belief,

      Homl. Th. i. 152, 34.
  • Ic gestrangige

    confirmo,

      Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 349, 26: 350, 34.
  • Ic heortan mannes gestrangie ego cor hominis confirmo, Th. Anal. 29, 1; Earm mín gestrangaþ hine

    brachium meum confortābit eum,

      Ps. Spl. 88, 21: Salm. Kmbl. 477; Sal. 239.
  • He gestrangode hine

    illos confortāvĕrit,

      Bd. 1, 23; S. 485, 16.
  • Bebeód Iosue and gestranga hine

    præcĭpe Iosue et corrōbŏra eum,

      Deut, 3, 28.
  • Ne biþ gestrangod man

    non confortēmur hŏmo,

      Ps. Spl. 9, 20: Ps. Th. 138, 4, 15.
  • Wes ðú gestrangad and ne ondrǽd ðú ðé

    be thou strengthened and fear not,

      Blickl. Homl. 231, 2: Lk. Bos. 1, 80.
  • Israéla folc wǽron swýðe gestrangode

    fīlii Israel sunt rōbŏrāti nĭmis,

      Ex. 1, 7: Ors. 6, 35; Bos. 131, 1.
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v.  strangian ge-strongian.
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