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§5; §47; §134; §162; §191; §325; §530; §643;
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to heal
a person sick in body or mind
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  • Sé haeleð (

    sanat) geðréste in heortan, Ps. Srt. 146, 3. ꝥ wíf of herning blódes hǽleit (sanat ),

    Mt p.
      16, 3: 15, 15.

  • Monige lécneð ł hǽles

    multos curat,

      16, 15.

  • Hǽled, 18, l. Ꝥ wíf of iorning blódes hǽled (saluat), Lk. p. 6, l. Gémde ł hǽlde hiá

    curavit eos,

      Mt. L. 19, 2.

  • Haelde hiá

    sanavit eos,

      21, 14.

  • Ðý lǽs. . . hwærfa hiá and ic hǽlo (

    sanem

    ) hiá,
      13, 15 : Jn. L. 13, 40.

  • Ꝥte haelde ðrael his

    ut saluaret seruum eius,

      Lk. L. 7, 3.

  • Críst hié hǽlan wolde,

      BI. H. 105, 26.

  • Hǽla ðá unstronga

    sanare infirmos,

      Lk. L. 9, 2.
to cure an infirmity of body or mind, a disease, &c.
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  • Bledsa sáwul mín Dryhten, sé haeleð (

    sanat

    ) alle áðle ðíne,
      Ps. Srt. 102, 3.
  • Sé þe wunde lácnian wille geóte wín on . . . and eft ele ðæt sé hié líðe and hǽle. Past. 124, 12.

  • Ðæt úre haele wunde

    ut nostra cures vulnera,

      Ps. Srt. ii. p. 204, 9.

  • Ꝥ hig hǽldun

    (curarent)

    ádle and ǽlce untrumnysse,
      Mt. 10, l.
    Mihtig ǽlce untrumnesse tó hǽleime, Bl. H. 223, 22.
to save
from physical harm or destruction
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  • Dryhten, hǽl (

    salva

    ) úsic, wé forweorðað.
      Mt. R. L. 8, 25.

  • Hǽl þec seolfne . . . ástíg nú of róde,

      27, 40.

  • Of weorum blóda hǽl mec,

      Ps. Srt. 58, 3.
from destruction of the soul
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  • Hǽl ús on eorþan, wé þe synt on líchomum lifgende, and eac þá þe on helle synt biddaþ þínre onlésnesse and þínre hǽlo,

      Bl. H. 81, 21.

  • Cwóm sunu monnes tó soecanne and tó hǽlenne Ꝥte losade,

      Lk. L. R. 19, 10.

  • Ne tó doemenne ah tó haelanne middangeard, Jn. p. 6, 19. ¶ hǽlende as

    epithet of Christ, Jesus. Cf. hǽ. end :-- Ic eom Hǽlende Críst, Hml. S. 30, 60 : Ll. Th. i. 54, 28 note. Utan we úre gyfe ðám syllan þe hyre onfón cann, þæt is úre Drihten Hǽlende Críst (úrum Drihtne Hǽlendum Críste, v. l.) nostra donaria offeramus ei, qui nouit accipere. Domino Deo nostro,

      Bd. 3, 24; Sch. 307, 20 : Rtl. 114, 15.

  • Ðú Hǽlende Críst

    Tesu Criste,

      Angl. ii. 365, 10, 17.

  • Æt úrum Hǽlendum Críste

    per Christum,

      Ors. 4, 10 ; S. 194, 28.

  • On Hǽlendum Críste,

      Bl. H. 187, 8.

  • Tó Drihtne Hǽlendum Críste,

      155, 15.
  • Wið úrne Drihten Hǽlendne Críst, 159, 33- v. for-hǽlan, ge-hǽlan, þurh-hǽlan, un-hǽlan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hǽlan.” 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/51496.

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