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Add: with gen. acc.
to care for, see to the welfare or wellbeing of a person or thing,
keep
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  • God þú þe begýmst mannan

    Deus qui gubernas hominem,

      Ps. L. fol. 142, 6.

  • Hí míne heorde wǽce begímdon,

      Wlfst. 190, 21.

  • Begým þínes sylfes,

      Hml. A. 198, 109.

  • Þæt hig begímon þǽra þinga þe tó þǽre hálgan eardungstówe belimpað

    custodiant vasa tabernaculi.

      Num. 3, 7.

  • Begýmendum

    gubernante,

      An. Ox. 1993.

  • Is begémed gubernatur, Kent. Gl. 495. ꝥ wín ge ꝥ wæter sýn mid ealre clǽnnysse begýmde, Ll. Th. ii. 404, 39. (l a) to tend the sick :-- Begýmed

    fotam,

      An. Ox. 4353.
to attend to (in answer to appeal)
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  • To Drihtne ic cleopige and hé begýmð (intendit) mé, Ps. Spl. 76, l. Begím dóm mínne

    intende judicio meo,

      34, 26.

  • Begím þú, God, mé tó fylste

    Deus, in adjutorium meum intende,

      R. Ben. 60, 5.
to observe, keep a command, an appointed season, &c.
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  • Þá offringdagas wé ná ne begýmaþ. An. Ox. 40,

      24, 37.

  • Begýmað þisse gesetednysse,

      Ex. 12, 25.
  • Þás niht sceolon Israhéla bearn begíman, 42.
to observe, watch a person
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  • Hig begýmdon hine,

      Lk. 14, l.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. pi-goumen observare, providere.]
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v. be-gýman in Dict.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “be-gíman.” 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/39773.

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