Definitions

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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gather.

Etymologies

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From gather +‎ -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix

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Examples

  • ‘Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.’

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • ‘Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.’

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • ‘Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.’

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • There follow excellent parables; as that, she gathereth strength in going; that she goeth upon the ground, and yet hideth her head in the clouds; that in the daytime she sitteth in a watch tower, and flieth most by night; that she mingleth things done, with things not done; and that she is a terror to great cities.

    The Essays 2007

  • He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!”

    The Tears Flowed Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur 2006

  • And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!”

    Archive 2006-04-01 Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur 2006

  • Matt 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

    Woe unto You, Hypocrites! | Mind on Fire 2006

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