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wíg-bed

  • noun [ neuter ]
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wíg-bed, wí-bed, wió-bed, -bud, wié-bed, weó-bed, -bud, weófod (-ed, -ud), wéfod, es, also -beddes; <b>n.</b> (generally, but se weóbud, Past. 33; Swt. 217, 21, and pl. wíbedas, Bd. 5, 20; S. 641, 42)
An altar [from wíg (wíh) and beód; some forms, e.g. wígbeddes, weóbedd, suggest that the word was thought to be derived from bed]
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  • Weófod altar vel

    ara,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 26, 51.
  • Hé scolde ðone Godes alter habban uppan áholodne, ðæt hé meahte on healdan ða lác ðe mon bróhte tó ðæm weóbude; for ðæm, gif se weóbud ufan hol nǽre, and ðǽr wind tó cóme, ðonne tóstencte hé ða lác. Hwæt elles getácnaþ ðæt weóbud búton ryhtwisra monna sáula? ... Wæs eall sió offrung uppe on ðæt wiébed (wióbud,

      Cott. MSS.) bróht, Past. 33; Swt. 217, 19-25.
  • Ðæt weóbud,

      219, 3.
  • Wígbed,

      Bd. 2, 3; S. 504, 39.
  • Ðæt weófud (-od,

      MS. A.: wígbed. Lind.: wíbed, Rush.), Mt. Kmbl. 23, 19.
  • Wígbedes hornas

    cornu altaris,

      Ps. Th. 117, 25: Ps. Lamb. 117, 27.
  • Tó wígbedes ðénunge,

      Bd. 2, 20; S. 522, 9: 5, 10; S. 624, 34.
  • Wígbedes (weófodes, col. 1),

      3, 17; S. 544, 3, col. 2.
  • Weófodes (wígbeddes,

      Lind.: wí-bedes, Rush.), Lk. Skt. 1, 11.
  • Weófodes þén,

      Homl. Ass. 22, 206.
  • Weóuedes (weófedes),

      R. Ben. 55, 2.
  • On wígbede tó hálsienne

    ariolandi,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 15.
  • Án dǽl ðam wíbede (wígbede,

    v. l.

    ),
      L. E. B. 12; Th. ii. 242, 18: Bd. 3, 23; S. 555, 14.
  • Tó wíbede,

      Ps. Surt. 42, 4.
  • Tó weófode (wígbed,

      Lind.: weófud ł wíbede, Rush.), Mt. Kmbl. 5, 23.
  • On wígbed ðín,

      Ps. C. 138.
  • Tó wígbed (beforan ðæt weófud ł wíbed, Rush.)

    ad altare,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 5, 24.
  • Ic ymbgaa wíbed ðín,

      Ps. Surt. 25, 6: Cd. Th. 107, 18; Gen. 1791: 108, 14; Gen. 1806: 113, 5; Gen. 1882.
  • Weóbedd,

      172, 8; Gen. 2841.
  • Uppan ðæt weófod,

      Ex. 24, 6: 29, 20.
  • Lege under weófod,

      Lchdm. ii. 138, 28: 142, 8.
  • Wígbedu (wíbed, Surt.: weófod, Spl.: wiébed, Spl. T.) ðín

    altaria tua,

      Ps. Th. 83, 4.
  • Tó wígbedum,

      Bd. 1, 27; 8. 488, 38.
  • Wíbedum (

    v. l.

    weófodum),
      1, 15; S. 484, 1.
  • Tó Godes weófedan,

      L. Eth. vii. 26; Th. i. 334, 30.
  • Tó hálgum wéfodum,

      Coll. Monast. Th. 36, 5.
  • Ðæt tempel and ða weófedu (wígbedo, Bd. M. 136, 18) ... ða wígbed and ða heargas

    templa et altaria ... aras et fana,

      Bd. 2, 13; S. 516, 33-39.
  • Ða wígbed (

    v. l.

    weófedu),
      S. 517, 18.
  • Hé wíbedas sette,

      5, 20; S. 641, 42.
  • Wíbedu

    arulas,

      Germ. 394, 259.
  • Paulus sceáwode ða weófoda, óþ ðæt hé funde án weófod ðe ðis gewrit on stód:

    Deo ignoto,

    ðæt is on
      Englisc, '
    Uncúðum gode is ðis weófod hálig,' Homl. Skt. ii. 29, 21.
  • Hig ðǽr gedydon twá weófedu,

      Blickl. Homl. 205, 15. [Laym. weofed (wefd, 2nd MS.), weofd; dat. wæfde (wefde, 2nd MS.): A. R. Kath. weoued: Ps. R. Glouc. weved: Ayenb. wieved.
    ]
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v.  beód weó-bed wí-bed wíg-gebed wíh.
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