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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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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-strangian.” 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/16186.

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