beþurfan

By surface analysis, be- +‎ þurfan

• IPA^(key): /beˈθur.fɑn/, [beˈθurˠ.vɑn]

beþurfan

1. to need, have need of [with genitive]
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Đā ġelǣredan ne beðurfon þyssera bōca, forðan ðe him mæġ heora āgen lār genihtsumian. Iċ cweðe nū þæt iċ næfre heonon forð ne āwende godspel oððe godspeltrahtas of Ledene on Englisċ.

     The learned have no need of these books, for they can be satisfied by their own learning. I say now that henceforth, I will never translate a gospel or a gospel-commentary from Latin into English.

2. to want, desire [with genitive]

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “be-þurfan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.