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be-féran

  • verb
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Substitute:
to go about, from place to place,
    Mk. 6, 6 (in Dict.).
to come upon, overtake, catch (of a pursuing force)
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  • beférde þæt folc þǽr hig gewícode wǽron

    cum persequerentur Aegyptii vestigia praecedentium, repererunt eos in castris,

      Ex. 14, 9.
  • beférde Maximum binnan ánre byrig,

      Hml. S. 31, 647: Bl. H. 79, 24.
intrans.
To get, fall among :--
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  • befoerde ł becuom on ðá ðeáfas

    incidit in latrones,

      Lk. L. 10, 30.
to pass by
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  • Ðára naman ic beférde (praeterii),

      Lch. i. lxxii, 11.
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v. be-faran.
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