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ibe

Bingham

íbe

a. packed hard as kabubu [preserved pandanus fruit] or earth.

ibe

n. clod.
bib. Hosea 10:11.

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ibe

a. compact, tightly packed, stuffed tightly, huddled together, growing thickly.
n. a sod of earth, something compact.
vc. ka-ibea, ka-ibeibea: to pack tightly, to stuff (to crown a piece in chess <checkers?>).

ibe1

pref. root of many compound words.

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