Get, Getting
Get, Getting
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 bo’, to come, or go in (Gen 45:17; 1Sa 22:5, etc.); yalakh to go on (Gen 12:1; Gen 22:2; Exo 5:4; Jer 5:5, etc.); yaradh, to go down (Gen 42:2; Joe 3:13); alah, to go up (Gen 44:17; Isa 40:9; Jer 49:31, etc.). Other words are nudh, to move off (Jer 49:30 the King James Version; Dan 4:14); nasa’, to remove (Num 14:25); yaca’, to go out (Gen 19:14; Gen 31:13; Exo 11:8). (2) In the sense of acquisition, the words most frequently translated get, etc., are asah, to do, to make (Gen 12:5; Gen 31:1; Deu 8:17, Deu 8:18); kanah, to get, obtain (Gen 4:1; Pro 4:5, Pro 4:7; Ecc 2:7 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) bought; Jer 13:1, the Revised Version (British and American) buy); maca’ to find (Num 31:50; 2Sa 20:6); rakhash, to acquire, gain (Gen 31:18; Gen 36:6 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) gathered; Gen 46:6).
Getting is the translation of poal (Pro 21:6), of kinyan obtaining (Gen 31:18; Pro 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 exerchomai, to go out or forth (Luk 13:31; Act 7:3; Act 22:18); of exeimi, to go out or forth (Act 27:43); of katabano, to go down (Act 10:20); hupago, to go away or under, Get … behind (Mat 16:23; Luk 4:8 the King James Version, Get … hence; Mat 4:10). The only separate word translated get in the second sense is heursko, to begin to find (usually translated find) (Luk 9:12 the King James Version, that they may go … and get victuals).
For get the Revised Version (British and American) has mount (Deu 28:43), buy (Pro 17:16; Jer 13:1; Jer 19:1); for get you down (Joe 3:13), tread ye, margin get you down; get for possess (Luk 18:12); get them away for gather themselves together (Psa 104:22); get us for apply (Psa 90:12); let us get grain for therefore we take up corn for them, and for that we might buy corn (Neh 5:2, Neh 5:3); get you no for provide neither (Mat 10:9); getteth prudence for is prudent, margin dealeth prudently (Pro 15:5); getteth for coveteth (Hab 2:9).