Gather - GATH'ER, v.t.
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. Gen 31.
2. To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Lev 25:20.
3. To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together.
Gather out the stones. Isa 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? Mat 7.
5. To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place. Ezek 22:19.
6. To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass.
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings. Eccl 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. Psa 106.
8. To sweep together.
The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Mat 13.
9. To bring into one body or interest.
Yet will I gather others to him. Isa 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, v.i. 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.]
Gather - GATH'ER, v.t.
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. Gen 31.
2. To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Lev 25:20.
3. To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together.
Gather out the stones. Isa 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? Mat 7.
5. To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place. Ezek 22:19.
6. To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass.
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings. Eccl 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. Psa 106.
8. To sweep together.
The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Mat 13.
9. To bring into one body or interest.
Yet will I gather others to him. Isa 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, v.i. 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.]
Gentile - GEN'TILE, n. [L. gentilis; from L. gens, nation, race; applied to pagans.]
In the scriptures, a pagan; a worshipper of false gods; any person not a Jew or a christian; a
heathen. The Hebrews included in the term goim or nations, all the tribes of men who had not
received the true faith,and were not circumcised. The christians translated goim by the L.
gentes, and imitated the Jews in giving the name gentiles to all nations who were not Jews nor
christians.
In civil affairs, the denomination was given to all nations who were not Romans.
GEN'TILE, a. Pertaining to pagans or heathens.
Gift - GIFT, n. [from give.] A present; any thing given or bestowed; any thing, the property of which is voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a donation. It is applicable to any thing movable or immovable.
1. The act of giving or conferring.
2. The right or power of giving or bestowing. The prince has the gift of many lucrative offices.
3. An offering or oblation.
If thou bring thy gift to the altar. Mat 5.
4. A reward.
Let thy gifts be to thyself. Dan 5.
5. A bribe; any thing given to corrupt the judgment.
Neither take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise. Deu 16.
6. Power; faculty; some quality or endowment conferred by the author of our nature; as the gift of wit; the gift of ridicule.
GIFT, v.t. To endow with any power or faculty.
Girding - GIRD'ING, ppr. Binding; surrounding; investing.
GIRD'ING, n. A covering. Isa 3.