Bewray

(in Isa 16:3, גָּלָה, galah’, to reveal, or disclose, as elsewhere rendered; in Pro 29:24, נָגִד, nagad’, to tell, as elsewhere; in Pro 27:16, קָרָא, kara’, to call, i.e. proclaim, as elsewhere; in Mat 26:73, ποιέω δῆλον, to make evident), an old English word equivalent to “BETRAY.”

To accuse or betray. Isa 16:3; Pro 27:16; Pro 29:24; Mat 26:73. From the Anglo-Saxon.

BEWRAY.—To bewray (from Anglo-Saxon prefix be and wregan, to accuse) is not the same as to betray (from be and Lat. tradere to deliver). To bewray, now obsolete, means in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] to make known, reveal, as Mat 26:73 ‘thy speech bewrayeth thee.’ Adams (Works, ii. 328) distinguishes the two words thus: ‘he … will not bewray his disease, lest he betray his credit.’ Sometimes, however, hewray is used in an evil sense, and is scarcely distinguishable from hetray. Cf. bewrayer in 2Ma 4:1 ‘a bewrayer of the money, and of his country.’