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be-faran

  • verb [ strong ]
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be-faran, p. -fór, pl. -fóron; pp. -faran; v. trans. [be, faran to go]
To go round, to travel through, go all over, to traverse, to go, march, encompass, to surround; peragrare, circumvenire
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  • Ne befaraþ ge Israhéla burga ǽrðan ðe mannes sunu cume

    ye shall not go over the cities of the Israelites before the son of man come,

    • Mt. Bos. 10, 23
    • .
  • Rómáne on ungewis on án nyrewett befóran, óþ hý Somnite útan befóran

    the Romans marched unwittingly into a narrow pass, till the Samnites surrounded them on the outside,

    • Ors. 3, 8; Bos. 63, 8
    • :
    • Cd. 167; Th. 209, 10
    • ;
    • Exod. 497
    • .
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v.  be-féran.
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