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sceop

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Past tense of the Old English verb "scyppan," meaning created, shaped, or fashioned, typically referring to divine acts of creation.

Detailed Definition
An Old English past tense form meaning created or shaped. In the hymn it describes God’s act of making heaven and earth, using a verb that is obsolete in modern English.
Example
Example in poetry:
“He ærest sceop eorðan bearnum,” from Cædmon’s Hymn, uses sceop, “created,” for God’s making of earth; “Sceop þa mancynnes Weard,” continues the Old English creation syntax; In Beowulf, scop usually means poet, while sceop is the past tense of scieppan, “to create”; Modern glossing example: “the maker sceop new worlds from ash,” preserving the archaic verb sense
Additional Notes
"sceop" is an archaic Old English verb form that most modern readers will not recognize.; Found in the poem, Caedmon's Hymn by Caedmon
Also Known As
shaper creator maker forger
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