Get; Getting

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A great many Hebrew words are in the Old Testament translated "get," "got," etc. The word "get" has two meanings: (1) with the idea of movement, "to go," etc.; (2) with that of acquisition, "to gain," "obtain," etc. (1) In the first sense the most frequent words are bō' , "to come, or go in" (  Genesis 45:17;  1 Samuel 22:5 , etc.); yālakh "to go on" ( Genesis 12:1;  Genesis 22:2;  Exodus 5:4;  Jeremiah 5:5 , etc.); yāradh , "to go down" ( Genesis 42:2;  Joel 3:13 ); ‛ālāh , "to go up" ( Genesis 44:17;  Isaiah 40:9;  Jeremiah 49:31 , etc.). Other words are nūdh , "to move off" ( Jeremiah 49:30 the King James Version;   Daniel 4:14 ); nāsā' , "to remove" ( Numbers 14:25 ); yācā' , "to go out" ( Genesis 19:14;  Genesis 31:13;  Exodus 11:8 ). (2) In the sense of acquisition , the words most frequently translated "get," etc., are ‛āsāh , "to do," "to make" ( Genesis 12:5;  Genesis 31:1;  Deuteronomy 8:17 ,  Deuteronomy 8:18 ); ḳānāh , "to get," "obtain" ( Genesis 4:1;  Proverbs 4:5 ,  Proverbs 4:7;  Ecclesiastes 2:7 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "bought";   Jeremiah 13:1 , the Revised Version (British and American) "buy"); mācā' "to find" ( Numbers 31:50;  2 Samuel 20:6 ); rākhash , "to acquire," "gain" ( Genesis 31:18;  Genesis 36:6 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "gathered";   Genesis 46:6 ).

Getting is the translation of pō‛al (  Proverbs 21:6 ), of kīnyān "obtaining" ( Genesis 31:18;  Proverbs 4:7 , the English Revised Version text and the American Standard Revised Version margin "all thou hast gotten"). In the New Testament "get" in the first sense is the translation of exérchomai , "to go out or forth" ( Luke 13:31;  Acts 7:3;  Acts 22:18 ); of éxeimi , "to go out or forth" ( Acts 27:43 ); of katabaı́nō , "to go down" ( Acts 10:20 ); hupágō , "to go away or under," "Get ... behind" ( Matthew 16:23;  Luke 4:8 the King James Version, "Get ... hence";   Matthew 4:10 ). The only separate word translated "get" in the second sense is heurı́skō , "to begin to find" (usually translated "find") ( Luke 9:12 the King James Version, "that they may go ... and get victuals").

For "get" the Revised Version (British and American) has "mount" ( Deuteronomy 28:43 ), "buy" ( Proverbs 17:16;  Jeremiah 13:1;  Jeremiah 19:1 ); for "get you down" ( Joel 3:13 ), "tread ye," margin "get you down"; "get" for "possess" ( Luke 18:12 ); "get them away" for "gather themselves together" ( Psalm 104:22 ); "get us" for "apply" ( Psalm 90:12 ); "let us get grain" for "therefore we take up corn for them," and for "that we might buy corn" ( Nehemiah 5:2 ,  Nehemiah 5:3 ); "get you no" for "provide neither" ( Matthew 10:9 ); "getteth prudence" for "is prudent," margin "dealeth prudently" ( Proverbs 15:5 ); "getteth" for "coveteth" ( Habakkuk 2:9 ).

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