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hrepian

  • verb [ weak ]
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hrepian, hreopian; p. ode
To touch, treat
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  • Se ðe eów hrepaþ hit mé biþ swá egle swylce hé hreppe ða seó mínes eágan

    he that touches you, it will be as painful to me as if he touches the apple of my eye,

    • Homl. Th. i. 392, 15
      • :
    • 516, 22.

  • Seó hrepaþ swýðost ymbe Cristes godcundnysse

    it [the gospel of St. John] treats chiefly of Christ's divinity,

    • 70, 1.

  • Swá hraðe swá his sceadu hí hreopode

    as soon as his shadow touched them,

    • 316, 16
      • :
    • 492, 25.

  • Hrepede,

    • 176, 6.

  • Gif ic his reáfes gefnædu hreppe ... heó hrepode his reáfes fnædu ... Hwá hreopode mé ... ðú áxast hwá dé hreopode ... ðæt wíf hine hrepode,

    • ii. 394, 10-18.

  • Wé ne hrepodon ðone traht

    we did not treat the exposition,

    • i. 104, 6.

  • Ne hrepa ðú ðæs treówes wæstm

    touch not the fruit of the tree,

    • 14, 1
      • :
    • Homl. Swt. 5, 302.

  • God bebeád ús ðæt we ðæt treów ne hrepodon

    præcepit nobis deus ne tangeremus illud [lignum ],

    • Gen. 3, 3.
Similar entries
v. gehrepod, and next word.
Linked entries
v.  æt-hreppian a-hrepian hreopian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hrepian.” 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/19726.

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