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EORÞE

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
EORÞE, an; f; eorþ, e; f. I. the
Wright's OE grammar
§7; §49; §85; §169; §196; §205; §261; §278; §302; §404;
EARTH in opposition to the sea, the ground, soil; terra, hŭmus, sŏlum
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  • God gecígde ða drignisse eorþan, and ðæra wætera gegaderunga he hét sǽs

    vŏcāvit Deus ārĭdam terram, congregātiōnesque ăquārum appellāvit măria,

    • Gen. 1,
    • 10.
  • Spritte seó eorþe grówende gærs and sǽd wircende and æppelbǽre treów wæstm wircende æfter his cinne, ðæs sǽd sig on him silfum ofer eorþan

    geemĭnet terra herbam vĭrentem et făcientem sēmen et lignum pōmĭfĕrum făciens fructum juxta gĕnus suum, cujus sēmen in sēmetipso sit sŭper terram,

    • Gen. 1, 11, 12, 24, 25, 28, 29: Cd. 57
    • ;
    • Th. 69,
    • 32;
    • Gen. 1144: Exon. 62b
    • ;
    • Th. 231,
    • 11;
    • Ph. 487: Beo. Th. 3069
    • ;
    • B. 1532: Elen. Kmbl. 1655
    • ;
    • El. 829 : Bt. Met. Fox 8,
    • 118 ;
    • Met. 8,
    • 59.
  • Ic ðec ofer eorþan geworhte, on ðære ðú scealt yrmþum lifgan and to ðære ilcan scealt eft geweorþan

    I made thee on earth, on which thou shalt live in misery and shalt become the same again,

    • Exon. 16 b
    • ;
    • Th. 39,
    • 12-19;
    • Cri. 621-624: 38 a
    • ;
    • Th. 125,
    • 10;
    • Gú. 352
    • .
  • Cain wæs eorþan tilia

    fuit Cain agrĭcŏla [lit. a tiller of the earth ],

    • Gen. 4,
    • 2.
  • II. the EARTH, terrestrial globe; tellus On anginne gesceóp God heofenan and eorþan

    in the beginning God created heaven and earth,

    • Gen. 1, 1, 2, 17, 20, 26: 2, 1, 4: Cd. 98
    • ;
    • Th. 129,
    • 9;
    • Gen. 2141: Exon. 16b
    • ;
    • Th. 38,
    • 18;
    • Cri. 608
    • .
  • Se Ælmihtiga eorþan worhte

    the Almighty made the earth,

    • Beo. Th. 185
    • ;
    • B. 92
    • .
  • Drihtnes is eorþe and fulnysse oððe gefyllednes hyre

    the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof,

    • Ps. Lamb. 23, 1: Ex. 9, 29: Deut. 10,
    • 14.
  • Ðæt gé ne swerion þurh eorþan, forðamðe heó ys Godes fótscamul

    that ye swear not by the earth, because it is God's foot-stool,

    • Mt. Bos. 5,
    • 35.
Etymology
[
Piers P.
Wyc. erthe:
Laym. eorðe, eorðen, earþe, erþe:
Orm. eorþe, erþé:
Plat, eerde , f:
O. Sax. erða , f:
Frs. yerd:
O. Frs. irthe, erthe, erde, f:
Dut. aarde, f:
Ger. M. H. Ger. erde, f:
O. H. Ger. erda, eradab, f:
Goth. airþa , f:
Dan. jord, m. f:
Swed, jord, f:
Icel. jörð, f. earth, land, estate
.]
Linked entries
v.  eord eorþ.
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  • EORÞE, n.