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Bible Dictionaries
Gain
King James Dictionary
or GAIN, Heb. to gain, to possess.
1. To obtain by industry or the employment of capital to get as profit or advantage to acquire. Any industrious person may gain a good living in America but it is less difficult to gain property, than it is to use it with prudence. Money at interest may gain five, six, or seven per cent.
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,and lose his own soul? Matthew 16
2. To win to obtain by superiority or success as, to gain a battle or a victory to gain a prize to gain a cause in law.
3. To obtain to acquire to procure to receive as, to gain favor to gain reputation.
For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease.
4. To obtain an increase of anything as, to gain time.
5. To obtain or receive anything, good or bad as, to gain harm and loss. Acts 27 .
6. To draw into any interest or party to win to one's side to conciliate.
To gratify the queen,and gain the court.
If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Matthew 18
7. To obtain as a suitor.
8. To reach to attain to to arrive at as, to gain the top of a mountain to gain a good harbor.
To gain into, to draw or persuade to join in.
He gained Lepidus into his measures.
To gain over, to draw to another party or interest to win over.
To gain ground, to advance in any undertaking to prevail to acquire strength or extent to increase.
GAIN, To have advantage or profit to grow rich to advance in interest or happiness.
Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. Ezekiel 22 .
1. To encroach to advance on to come forward by degrees with on as, the ocean or river gains on the land.
2. To advance nearer to gain ground on with on as, a fleet horse gains on his competitor.
3. To get ground to prevail against or have the advantage.
The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself.
4. To obtain influence with.
My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor,that I began to conceive hopes of liberty.
To gain the wind, in sea language, is to arrive on the windward side of another ship.
GAIN, n. Profit interest something obtained as an advantage.
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Philippians 3
1. Unlawful advantage. 2 Corinthians 12
2. Overplus in computation any thing opposed to loss.
GAIN, n. In architecture, a beveling shoulder a lapping of timbers, or the cut that is made for receiving a timber.
GAIN, a. Handy dexterous.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Gain'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/gain.html.
