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to remain,
not to move from a place
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  • Abraham beláf þǽr,

      Gen. 21, 32: Chr. 1018; P. 155, 13.

  • Seó scipfyrd beláf

    the fleet did not move,

      1052; P. 177, 23. xl.
    scypa belifon mid þam cynge, 1018; P. 154, 14.

  • Him twá mǽgða belifon,

      Hml. A. 61, 238. (1 a) with adverb :-- Ðá
    bóceras bæftan belifon, Hml. Th. i. 108, 11.

  • Fíf belifan wiðæftan,

      Chr. 1047; P. 171, 7.

  • Bæftan belífan

    remorari,

      R. Ben. 1. 87, 9.

  • Hig ealle in on þá burh fóron þæt ðǽr nánþyng þæs folces wyðútan belyfen næs,

      St. And. 34, 14.
to be left, not to be taken away, to survive
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  • Hyt tófléwð swá ðæt þǽr nán­wiht belífeð búton þá bán,

      Lch. i. 242, 27.

  • Se gewuna beláf of hǽðenra manna biggenge,

      Hml. A. 146, 47.

  • Ne ówiht inne ne belífe heánra gylta,

      Dóm. L. 38.

  • Oðer dǽl scel belíuan ðám ðe hit findæð,

      Cht. Th. 318, 21.

  • Belífendra

    remanentium,

      Scint. 74, 8.

  • Swá hwæt swá tóforan þám neádbehéfum belifen byþ

    quidquid necessario victui superest,

      R. Ben. 138, 16.

  • Þæt folc þæt on þǽre ceastre belyfen wæs,

      St. And. 34, 31.

  • Beliuene

    superstites,

      Hpt. Gl. 484, 4.
with predicate noun or adj.
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  • God þé benǽmð þínra góda, and þú belífst siððan wǽdla,

      Hml. Th. ii. 102, 23.

  • Þæt þæt cucu beláf,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 3, 29.

  • Nán ne beláf cucu,

      Hml. S. 18, 141.

  • Hé beláf þǽr gesund,

      29, 251.

  • Þá líchaman belifon ungederode,

      4, 395.
to die; belifen; pp. dead [cf. O. H. Ger. bi-liban mortuus]
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  • Sc̃a Maria wæs iii and sixtig geára eald ðá heó belyfen wæs,

      Sal. K. 184, 2.

  • Mid þǽm miclan wólbryne monncwealmes þe him raðe ðæs æfter com, swá ðæt hié healfe belifene wurdon,

      Ors. 2, 6; S. 86, 26.
Etymology
[O. Frs. bi-líva.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “be-lífan.” 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/39894.

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