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Go
King James Dictionary
or GO, pret. went pp. gone.
1. In a general sense, to move to pass to proceed from one place, state or station to another opposed to resting. A mill goes by water or by steam a ship goes at the rate of five knots an hour a clock goes fast or slow a horse goes lame a fowl or a ball goes with velocity through the air.
The mourners go about the streets. Ecclesiastes 12
2. To walk to move on the feet or step by step. The child begins to go alone at a year old.
You know that love
Will creep in service where it cannot go.
3. To walk leisurely not to run.
Thou must run to him for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn.
4. To travel to journey by land or water. I must go to Boston. He has gone to Philadelphia. The minister is going to France.
5. To depart to move from a place opposed to come. The mail goes and comes every day, or twice a week.
I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice. Exodus 8
6. To proceed to pass.
And so the jest goes round.
7. To move to pass in any manner or to any end as, to go to bed to go to dinner to go to war.
8. To move or pass customarily from place to place, denoting custom or practice. The child goes to school. A ship goes regularly to London. We go to church.
9. To proceed from one state or opinion to another to change. He goes from one opinion to another. His estate is going to ruin.
10. To proceed in mental operations to advance to penetrate. We can go but a very little way in developing the causes of things.
11. To proceed or advance in accomplishing an end. This sun will not go far towards full payment of the debt.
12. To apply to be applicable. The argument goes to this point only it goes to prove too much.
13. To apply one's self.
Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.
14. To have recourse to as, to go to law.
15. To be about to do as, I was going to say. I am going to begin harvest. This use is chiefly confined to the participle.
16. To pass to be accounted in value. All this goes for nothing. This coin goes for a crown.
17. To circulate to pass in report. The story goes.
18. To pass to be received to be accounted or understood to be.
And the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 1 Samuel 17
19. To move, or be in motion as a machine. See No 1
20. To move as fluid to flow.
The god I am, whose yellow water flows
Around these fields, and fattens as it goes,
Tiber my name.
21. To have a tendency.
Against right reason all your counsels go.
22. To be in compact or partnership.
They were to go equal shares in the booty.
23. To be guided or regulated to proceed by some principle or rule. We are to go by the rules of law, or according to the precepts of scripture.
We are to go by another measure.
24. To be pregnant. The females of different animals go some a longer, some a shorter time.
25. To pass to be alienated in payment or exchange. If our exports are of less value than our imports, our money must go to pay the balance.
26. To be loosed or released to be freed from restraint. Let me go let go the hand.
27. To be expended. His estate goes or has gone for spirituous liquors. See No. 24.
28. To extend to reach. The line goes from one end to the other. His land goes to the bank of the Hudson.
29. to extend or lead in any direction. This road goes to Albany.
30. To proceed to extend. This argument goes far towards proving the point. It goes a great way towards establishing the innocence of the accused.
31. To have effect to extend in effect to avail to be of force or value. Money goes farther now than it did during the war.
32. To extend in meaning or purport.
His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow.
In the three last examples, the sense of go depends on far, farther, further.
33. To have a currency or use, as custom, opinion or manners.
I think, as the world goes,he was a good sort of man enough.
34. To contribute to conduce to concur to be an ingredient with to or into. The substances which go into this composition. Many qualifications go to make up the well bred man.
35. To proceed to be carried on. The business goes on well.
36. To proceed to final issue to terminate to succeed.
Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.
37. To proceed in a train, or in consequences.
How goes the night, boy?
38. To fare to be in a good or state.
How goes it, comrade?
39. To have a tendency or effect to operate.
These cases go to show that the court will vary the construction of instruments.
To go about, to set one's self to a business to attempt to endeavor.
They never go about to hide or palliate their vices.
1. In seamen's language, to tack to turn the head of a ship.
To go abroad, to walk out of a house.
1. To be uttered, disclosed or published.
To go against, to invade to march to attack.
1. To be in opposition to be disagreeable.
To go aside, to withdraw to retire into a private situation.
1. To err to deviate from the right way.
To go astray, to wander to break from an inclosure also, to leave the right course to depart from law or rule to sin to transgress.
To go away, to depart to go to a distance.
To go between, to interpose to mediate to attempt to reconcile or to adjust differences.
To go by, to pass near and beyond.
1. To pass away unnoticed to omit.
2. To fine or get in the conclusion.
In argument with men, a woman ever
Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
A phrase now little used.
To go down, to descend in any manner.
1. To fail to come to nothing.
2. To be swallowed or received, not rejected. The doctrine of the divine right of kings will not go down in this period of the world.
To go forth to issue or depart out of a place.
To go forward, to advance.
To go hard with, to be in danger of a fatal issue to have difficulty to escape.
To go in, to enter.
To go in to, to have sexual commerce with.
To go in and out, to do the business of life.
1. To go freely to be at liberty. John 10 .
To go off, to depart to a distance to leave a place or station.
1. To die to decease.
2. To be discharged, as fire arms to explode.
To go on, to proceed to advance forward.
1. To be put on, as a garment. The coat will not go on.
To go out, to issue forth to depart from.
1. To go on an expedition.
2. To become extinct, as light or life to expire. A candle goes out fire goes out.
And life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
3. To become public. This story goes out to the world.
To go over, to read to peruse to study.
1. To examine to view or review as, to go over an account.
If we go over the laws of christianity--
2. To think over to proceed or pass in mental operation.
3. To change sides to pass from one party to another.
4. To revolt.
5. To pass from one side to the other, as of a river.
To go through, to pass in a substance as, to go through water.
1. To execute to accomplish to perform thoroughly to finish as, to go through an undertaking.
2. To suffer to bear to undergo to sustain to the end as, to go through a long sickness to go through an operation.
To go through with, to execute effectually.
To go under, to be talked of or known, as by a title or name as, to go under the name of reformers.go up, to ascend to rise.
To go upon, to proceed as on a foundation to take as a principle supposed or settled as, to go upon a supposition.
To go with, to accompany to pass with others.
1. To side with to be in party or design with.
To go with, to have fortune not to prosper.
To go well with, to have good fortune to prosper.
To go without, to be or remain destitute.
Go to, come, move, begin a phrase of exhortation also a phrase of scornful exhortation.
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 'Go'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/go.html.
