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Word of the Day: Catachrestical

Getting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of obtaining, gaining or acquiring; acquisition.

2. Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get

3. understanding. Proverbs 4:7 .

4. Gain; profit.

Getting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Obtaining; procuring; gaining; winning; begetting.

Getting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.

2. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.

Getting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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7 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Getting”

Genesis 31:18

And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.

2 Samuel 3:24

Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you dismiss him? Now he is getting away!

1 Kings 16:9

And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.

1 Kings 20:16

And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

Mark 5:18

And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.

As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by the demons begged to go with Him.

Wisdom of Solomon 13:19

And for gaining and getting, and for good success of his hands, asketh ability to do of him, that is most unable to do any thing.

Wisdom of Solomon 15:12

But they counted our life a pastime, and our time here a market for gain: for, say they, we must be getting every way, though it be by evil means.

Sirach 42:4

Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or little;

Baruch 3:17

They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?