Many particular gestures and special actions might be noted. The beggar at the door brings his forefinger acros.s bus teeth to prove that he has eaten nothing that day (Am 4'').
In friendly explanation, as an act of aflfectionate persuasion, and as a liberty of familiar friendship, the hand is put under the chin, and the face lifted up, or the beard stroked as Joab did to Amasa (2 .S 20"). The outstretched arm indicates authority and decision, if the hand is also open and extended (Ex 6") ; but when tlie fingers and thumb are d^a^\^l together to a cone, it implies a respectful request for permission to speak or interfere (Ac 21*").
Naturally, the most characteristic gestures are those where the strongest emotions are called forth or r-.ppealed to, as in the dance, in bereave- ment, and the symbolical gestures and attitudes of Oriental prayer. See further such articles as Foot, Hand, Head. G. M. Mackie.
GET, GETTING.— 1. The verb to ' get' (of which the parts are get, gat* or got, gotten or got) is frequently used in the sense of ' go,' generally followed immediately by a personal pronoun. Thus 2 S 4' ' tliey smote him . . . and gat them away through the plain all night ' (n?-ivn ^r) \v;:\, RV ' went by the way of the Arabali '). Four times in NT Unraye, the iniperat. of viriyu, to ' depart,' is so tr'', viz. iiraye Soroi'd, ' Get thee hence,t Satan,' Mt 4'" (Khem. 'Avant Satan'); and liraye dtrlau nov 'Za.To.va, ' Get thee be' ind me, Satan,' Mt 1G==, Mk 8», Lk 4« (the last omitted by RV after edd.). This idiom is still bolder in earlier versions, as in Tind., Mt 27"" 'the hye prestes and pharises got them selves to Pilate ' ; Lk 22*' ' And he gate him selfe from them, about a stones cast' ; Jn .5" ' For Jesus had gotten him selfe awaye, because that ther was preace of people in the place.'
2. The same form of expression (though the idiom is dill'erent, the pron. being now the remote object) is often used when the meaning is ' find ' or ' gain.' Sometimes the pers. pron. is expressed in the Heb., sometimes not. Thus Gn 34* 'Get me this damsel to wife' (-S-np) ; Ex 14" ' When I have gotten me honour upon I'haraoh ' (1?;'7?) ; 2 S 20" ' lest he get him fenced cities' (iS K^ri?) ; Ec 2' ' I got me servants' (C'^'i, •n'JiT, RV ' I bought men- servants ') ; 2* ' I gathered me also silver ' C? -Brj;) ; Jer 13' 'Go and get thee a linen girdle' (^^ ""JD, RV 'buy thee'). This remote object is expressed otherwise than by a pers. pron. in 1 Mac 3' ' So !iO "at his people great honour ' (icoi tryirvrtr Sl^ar rif \ov aiVofi).
3. Other passages deseri-ing attention are : Gn4' ' I iiave gotten a man from tlie Lord ' (-n^c &x t').;
• Ttie ISll edition of A V Bpelta lhl« (onn ' g»te • everjwhf re excont Sir <«», 1 Mao oa.
t This poMaj^o has given tho phrase 'ect the« hence • mcaniiik' inmoll. Kni;. which it di.l nut alwnyn carr)-. Thu« Mil 1*^ Tind. • tJet Ihc hence and ullcwe tliy %\\tv to Ule prMlo ' ; Jn 6" Tind. 'Talie up Ihv In-cd, and |fct thee hence"; anil Zeo GB AV * Qet you hcnoe, walk to and fro Ihrougb the ttarth.'
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ni.T, RV ' I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord'*); Wis 10* 'they gat not only tliis hurt, that they knew not the things which were good' {i^Xd^riaav, RV 'were disabled'); Sir 13" 'Smiling upon thee [he] will get out thy secrets' (^trrdo-ei, RV ' will search thee out ') ; 21" ' getteth the understanding thereof ' {/caraKparet toC ivvoiiiiaros airroS, RV ' becometh master of the intent thereof ') ; 27" ' so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and shalt not get him again ' {ov B-npevaen avrbv, RV ' tliou wilt not catch him again'); I Mac 9'^ 'when Bacchides gat knowledge tliereof ' ((yi^, RV ' knew it ') ; 2 Mac 5' ' But Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to get the day of tliem of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him ' (o!> awvoQir rrjv tis tows cvyyeveh einjfiepiav Svaij^epLav cli'ai rijy tuyl<miv^ RV ' that good success against kinsmen is the greatest ill success ' t)-
Getting is used as a verbal subst. in Gn 31'* ' the cattle of his getting' Cu;^? nji??, Dillm. das Vieh seines Erwcrbcs, ' the cattle of his possession ' ; Kalisch, 'the cattle of his acquisition'); and in Pr 4' ' with all thy getting, get understanding ' (^j;;p-'7?3, RV ' with aU thou hast gotten ' : the meaning is not ' whatever thou gettest, get under- standing,' but 'by means of all thy gains, get understanding ' ; cf. Mt 13*" ' went and sold all that he had, and bought it'). T. Lever (Sermons, 1550, Arber's ed. p. 117) translates Is 56" ' Un- shamefaste dogges, Knowynge no measure of gredye gettynge.' J. Hastings.
GETHER (-na).— Named in Gn 10==, along with Uz, Hul, and jilash, as one of the ' sons of Aram ' (in 1 Ch 1" simply ' sons of Shem '). Tlie clan of which he is the eponymous founder has not been identified. Dillmann considers that Knobel's ex- planations ( Volkertafel, 235 f . ) from Arabian genea- logies, as well as tlie attempts of Glaser [Skizze d. Gesch. u. Gcog. Arab. 421 f.), have failed to yield any acceptable results.