behabban

Equivalent to be- +‎ habban.

• IPA^(key): /beˈxɑb.bɑn/, [beˈhɑb.bɑn]

behabban

1. (transitive) to surround or embrace something
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:

     Ðīne fȳnd behabbaþ ðē.

     Your enemies surround you.

2. (transitive) to hold or contain somebody or something
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:

     Māran endebyrdnysse þonne ðis godspel behæfð.

     More circumstances than this gospel contains.

3. (intransitive) to understand something (+ dative or + on)
4. (transitive) to withhold or hold something back
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:

     Behæfð God his mildheortnesse.

     God withholds his mercy.

5. (transitive) to restrain or detain somebody
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:

     Hī behæfdon hine.

     They detained him.

• behæfednes f (“detention, care”)

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “'be-habban'”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “'be-habban'”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.