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tiber

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
tiber, tifer, es; n.
A sacrifice, offering, victim
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  • Wit fýr and sweord habbaþ, hwǽr is ðæt tiber ðæt ðú torht Gode tó ðam brynegielde bringan þencest (cf. ic áxige hwǽr seó offrung sig; hér ys wudu and fýr

    ecce ignis et ligna; ubi est victima?

      Gen. 22, 7), Cd. Th. 175, 4; Gen. 2890.

  • Ðú scealt mé onsecgan sunu ðínne tó tibre

    offeres filium tuum in holocaustum

    (Gen.
      22, 2), 172, 31; Gen. 2852.

  • Se ðe on tifre gesalde Diihten Hǽlend,

      301, 1; Sat. 575.

  • Hié Drihtne lác begen brohton; brego engla beseah on Abeles gield, cyning eallwihta, Caines ne wolde tiber sceáwian (

    ad munera illius (Cain) non respexit Dominus,

      Gen. 4. 5), 60, 9; Gen. 979.

  • Noe tiber onsægde (

    obtulit holocausta,

      Gen. 8, 20), 90, 29; Gen. 1502: 108, 17; Gen. 1807.

  • Hálig tiber (

    Isaac

    ),
      204, 6; Exod. 415.

  • Ic on ðín hús gange and ðǽr tídum ðé tifer onsecge . . . Ðás ic mid múðe aspræc . . . ðæt ic ðé on tifrum forgulde ealle ða gehát ðe ic mid mínum welerum tódǽlde

    introibo in domum tuam in holocaustis . . . Haec locutum est os meum . . . : Holocausta offeram tibi,

      Ps. Th. 65, 12-13.

  • Tiber,

      Cd. Th. 9, 2; Gen. 135. v. timber.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. zepar, zebar hostia, sacrificium, holocaustum: Ger. ziefer in ungeziefer. Cf. Icel. tafn a sacrifice, victim. See Grmm. D. M. p. 36.]
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v. fyrd- (?), sige-, sigor-, wín-tiber (-tifer).
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v.  teofrian tifer.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tiber.” 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/30403.

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