'The weird sisters, hand in hand. Posters of tlie sea and land, Thus do go about, about.'
But the third meaning is the most archaic now. It occurs only once in OT, Dt 31'-' 'I know their imagination whicli they go about' (.li'v, A'Vm 'do,' Driver, ' worketh ' [the ' people ' being singular], lit. ' maketh '). In Apocr. once also, 1 Mac 11' 'the king of Egypt . . . went about tlirougli deceit to pet Alexander's kingdom '(^fi'rr')<ff, RV 'sought'). In NT seven times. Jn 7"'», \k-Z\'\ Ro lO^dV'"). Ar 26=' (irfipdi.uai), 24" (Teipdj-u), 9^ [imxapti^). These verbs all mean to 'try,' 'attempt,' and are so tr'' elsewhere. Thus in Jn V"-*' j-itt^u is tr'' 'go about,' but in 7" 'seek.' The earlier VSS have the phrase 'go about " still oftener. Thus in Tind. we find it Mt 13-''-' 'wliill ye go aboute to wede out the tares' ; Mk 12'= ' they went about to take liim, but they feared the people'; Lk 17" ' Whosoever will goo about to save his lyfo shall loose it ' ; Jn It^** ' Agayno they went alxjute to take him : but he escaped out of their hondes.'
So Cov. in Job 32^ ' For yf I wolde go aboute to please men, I knowe not how soone mv makei wolde take me awaye' ; and Rhem. in Lk 1' ' Be- cause many liave gone about to compile a narration of the things that have been accomplished among us.' Hooker begins his Eccles. Puittij with the phrase, ' He that goeth about to persuade a multi- tude, that they are not so well governed as tliej* ought to be, shall never want attentive and favour- able hearers.' And it is common in Shaks., as Henry V. IV. i. 212, ' You may as well go aliout to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a peacock's feather.'
2. Go abroad: There are two meanings : (1) ' Go from home,' 'go out of doors' ; Dt 23'" 'then shall he go abroad <mt of the camp' (■"'Ji!*S pn'r-'jN k)(."i). So Shaks. // Henry IV. I. ii. 107, ' lam glad to see your lordsliip abroad ; I heard say, your lordship was sick ; 1 hope, your lordship goes abroad bv advice.' (2) 'Go hither and thither'; Ps 77'' 'Thine arrows also went abroad' ('^^nn; 'went hither and thither' — Del., Chevne ; God's arrows being the flashes of lightning) ; Mt9=», Jn21=='(^f^p- Xo^iai) ; Lk 5" ' But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him' (Si^pxeTo). T. Lever {Sermons, Arber's ed. p. 29) uses the phrase more boldly, suppressing the verb ' go ' : ' loke at the mercliauntes of London, and ye shall se . . . their riches muste abrode in the countrey to bie fermes out of the handes of worshypfull gentlemen, honest« j^eomen, and pore laliorvnge husbandes.'
3. Go after: (1) 'Walk behind^; Jos 3" When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LoitD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it' (v-jqx CB:"jni). (2) 'Follow'; 2 S 20" 'He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab' ("i~^, no verb in Heb., RV ' let him follow'). In NT with Gr. iirepxotiai (Jiriffu Mk 1'-'", Jn 12"', Jude'; without 6iri<ru Lk 17'-^, and with TTopdJofiai iiriiTu Lk21''. But especially to follow so as to become a votary of, sometimes of J" in OT (Jer 2-'), but most frequently of ' other gods,' the Heb. phrase being -inx 7,Vrr (Dt 6'^ 11=» 13- '28'*— the Heb. phrase occurs also 4^ EV 'follow,' S'" EV ' walk after '—Jer 2=» 11'" 2o«35"'). The same Heb. is used of following 'strangers' (Jer 2-^), 'lovers' (Hos2'-''), and the 'strange woman' (Pr7'-'=); and it has a lig. use in Ezk 33^' ' their heart goeth after their covetousness ' (RV 'their gain'). In 1 K U* the s,anie idea is otherwise expressed, 'Solomon . . . went not fully after the Lord ' ("qx k^; kS). (3) ' Pursue' ; Jos S" 'And there was not a man left ill Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel ' ("inx Ky;), Ezk 9" Go ye after him through the city, and smite ' (v-irrx n?v). W ' Seek ' ; Lk lo* ' go after that which is lost' {iropevcrai i-rl ri diroXuXij).
4. Go acjain : alway9='go back' (.see Ao.MN), as 1 S 25''= 'So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those s.aviiigs' (ur;!, RV 'and went back'); 2 K 4" ' Whcrifore lie went again to meet him' (:v';i, UV 'he returned'). The Heb. is always 3«> 'turn,' the Gr. im<rTp((pw (Ac 15").
5. Go alonq : The expression occurs Nu 21'=', Dt 2=', Jos 17', Jg ll'», 1 S 6'=. 2 S3" 10", Jer 4 1«, and always stands for the siiiiide verb "Vc to ' go.' In Jos 17' it is the 'border' that is said to 'go along,' a Heb. idiom taken UMlily into the Eng. ; it is more frequent as 'go out,' see Inflow.
0. Goasii/e: 'to goto one side.' (I) Literally, Heb. Tr (.ler 15' ' Who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?' UV 'turn a.sido ) ; Gr. draxuy<w (.-Vc 23'" •26"), irox'ipiu (Lk 9'°), ixipxaatu (.\c 4"). (2) Metaphorically, 'to go wrong.' Ileb. r.y^ Si1(i1h (Nu s'-'-"'*'-''!. t; (Dt '2X'*, Ps 14' 'They are aV •'one aside, they are altogether become filthy'). The same idea Is expressed by the verb alons io