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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Obtaineth

The Bible

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Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Obtain

OBTA'IN, verb transitive [Latin obtineo; ob and teneo, to hold.]

1. To get; to gain; to procure; in a general sense, to gain possession of a thing, whether temporary or permanent; to acquiare. this word usually implies exertion to get possession, and in this it differs from receive, which may or may not imply exertion. it differs from acquire, as genus from species; acquire being properly applied only to things permanently possessed; but obtain is applied both to things of temporary and of permanent possession. We obtain loans of money on application; we obtain answers to letters; we obtain spirit from liquors by distillation and salts by evaporation. We obtain by seeking; we often receive without seeking. We acquire or obtain a good title to lands by deed, or by a judgment of court; but we do not acquire spirit by distillation; nor do we acquire an answer to a letter or an application.

He shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries. Daniel 11:21.

In whom we have obtained an inheritance. Ephesians 1:11.

2. To keep; to hold.

OBTA'IN, verb intransitive

1. To be received in customary or common use; to continue in use; to be established in practice.

The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, obtained in the western parts of the empire.

2. To be established; to subsist in nature.

The general laws of fluidity, elasticity and gravity, obtain in animal and inanimate tubes.

3. To prevail; to succeed. [Little used.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Obtainable

OBTA'INABLE, adjective That may be obtained; that may be procured or gained.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Obtained

OBTA'INED, participle passive Gained; procured; acquired.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Obtainer

OBTA'INER, noun One who obtains.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Obtaining

OBTA'INING, participle present tense Gaining; procuring; acquiring.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Obtainment

OBTA'INMENT, noun The act of obtaining.