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Gather
King James Dictionary
or GATH'ER,
1. To bring together to collect a number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body.
Gather stones and they took stones,and made a heap. Genesis 31
2. To get in harvest to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Levit. 25.20.
3. To pick up to glean to get in small parcels and bring together.
Gather out the stones. Isaiah 62
He must gather up money by degrees.
4. To pluck to collect by cropping, picking or plucking.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Matthew 7
5. To assemble to congregate to bring persons into one place. Ezekiel 22.19 .
6. To collect in abundance to accumulate to amass.
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings. Ecclesiastes 2
7. To select and take to separate from others and bring together.
Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen. Psalms 106
8. To sweep together.
The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Matthew 13
9. To bring into one body or interest.
Yet will I gather others to him. Isaiah 56
10. To draw together from a state of expansion or diffusion to contract.
Gathering his flowing robe he seemed to stand,
In act to speak, and graceful stretch'd his hand.
11. To gain.
He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
12. To pucker to plait.
13. To deduce by inference to collect or learn by reasoning. From what I hear I gather that he was present.
After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. Acts 16
14. To coil as a serpent.
To gather breath, to have respite.
GATH'ER, To collect to unite to increase to be condensed. The clouds gather in the west.
1. To increase to grow larger by accretion of like matter.
Their snow ball did not gather as it went.
2. To assemble. The people gather fast.
3. To generate pus or matter. See Gathering.
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 'Gather'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/gather.html.
