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be-seón

  • verb [ strongcontracted ]
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be-seón, -sión, bi-seón; ic -seó, ðú -sihst, he -sihþ, -syhþ, pl. -seóþ; p. ic, he -seah, ðú -sáwe, pl. -sáwon; impert. -sih; pp. -sewen; [be by, near, about; seón to see]
to look about or around; circumspicere
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  • Sóna ðá hí besáwon hí, nánne hí mid him ne gesáwon

    suddenly when they looked about them, they saw no one with him,

    • Mk. Bos. 9, 8.

  • Ðá he beseah, ðá geseah he olfendas

    when he looked about, then he saw the camels,

    • Gen. 24, 63.
to see, look, behold; videre, aspicere
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  • Abraham beseah upp and geseah þrí weras

    Abraham looked up and saw three men,

    • Gen. 18, 2.

  • Eágan his on þearfena beseóþ

    oculi ejus in pauperem respiciunt,

    • Ps. Spl. 10, 5.

  • Besih on me

    aspice in me,

    • Ps. Lamb. 118, 132.
to go to see, visit; visere, visitare
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  • Beseoh wíngeard ðisne

    visita vineam istam,

    • Ps. Th. 79. 14.
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v.  seón be-sewen bi-seón be-seah be-sih be-sión bi-seón.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “be-seón.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/3938.

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