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Get
King James Dictionary
or GET, pret. got. gat, obs. pp. got, gotten.
1. To procure to obtain to gain possession of, by almost any means. We get favor by kindness we get wealth by industry and economy we get land by purchase we get praise by good conduct and we get blame by doing injustice. The merchant should get a profit on his goods the laborer should get a due reward for his labor most men get what they can for their goods or for their services. Get differs from acquire, as it does not always express permanence of possession, which is the appropriate sense of acquire. We get a book or a loaf of bread by borrowing, we do not acquire it but we get or acquire an estate.
2. To have.
Thou hast got the face of a man.
This is a most common, but gross abuse of this word. We constantly hear it said, I have got no corn, I have got no money, she has got a fair complexion, when the person means only, I have no corn, I have no money, she has a fair complexion.
3. To beget to procreate to generate.
4. To learn as, to get a lesson.
5. To prevail on to induce to persuade.
Though the king could not get him to engage in a life of business. This is not elegant.
6. To procure to be. We could not get the work done. Not elegant.
To get off, to put off to take or pull off as, to get off a garment: also,to remove as, to get off a ship from shoals.
To sell to dispose of as, to get off goods.
To get on, to put on to draw or pull on as, to get on a coat to get on boots.
To get in, to collect and shelter to bring under cover as, to get in corn.
To get out, to draw forth as, to get out a secret.
To draw out to disengage.
To get the day, to win to conquer to gain the victory.
To get together, to collect to amass.
To get over, to surmount to conquer to pass without being obstructed as, to get over difficulties: also, to recover as, to get over sickness.
To get above, to surmount to surpass.
To get up, to prepare and introduce upon the stage to bring forward.
With a pronoun following, it signifies to betake to remove to go as, get you to bed get thee out of the land. But this mode of expression can hardly be deemed elegant.
GET, To arrive at any place or state followed by some modifying word,and sometimes implying difficulty or labor as,
To get away or away from, to depart to quit to leave or to disengage one's self from.
To get among, to arrive in the midst of to become one of a number.
To get before, to arrive in front, or more forward.
To get behind, to fall in the rear to lag.
To get back, to arrive at the place from which one departed to return.
To get clear, to disengage one's self to be released, as from confinement, obligation or burden also, to be freed from danger or embarrassment.
To get down, to descend to come from an elevation.
To get home, to arrive at one's dwelling.
To get in or into, to arrive within an inclosure, or a mixed body to pass in to insinuate one's self.
To get loose or free, to disengage one's self to be released from confinement.
To get off, to escape to depart to get clear also, to alight to descend from.
To get out, to depart from an inclosed place or from confinement to escape to free one's self from embarrassment.
To get along, to proceed to advance.
To get rid of, to disengage one's self from also, to shift off to remove.
To get together, to meet to assemble to convene.
To get up, to arise to rise from a bed or a seat also, to ascend to climb.
To get through, to pass through and reach a point beyond any thing also, to finish to accomplish.
To get quit of, to get rid of to shift off, or to disengage one's self from.
To get forward, to proceed to advance also, to prosper to advance in wealth.
To get near, to approach within a small distance.
To get ahead, to advance to prosper.
To get on, to proceed to advance.
To get a mile or other distance, to pass over it in traveling.
To get at, to reach to make way to.
To get asleep, to fall asleep.
To get drunk, to become intoxicated.
To get between, to arrive between.
To get to, to reach to arrive.
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 'Get'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/get.html.
