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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GOODS, n. plu. Movables; household furniture.
1. Personal or movable estate; as horses, cattle, utensils, etc.
2. Wares; merchandize; commodities bought and sold by merchants and traders.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Goods Goods, n. pl. See Good, n., 3.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Goods are things that are made to be sold. Money can be exchanged for goods or services. ...a wide range of consumer goods. N-PLURAL 2. Your goods are the things that you own and that can be moved. All his worldly goods were packed into a neat checked carrier bag... You can give your unwanted goods to charity. N-PLURAL: usu poss adj N

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

goodz (rekhush, Tubh; ta huparchonta): In the Old Testament rekhush ("substance") is most frequently translated "goods," as in Ge 14:11,12,16,21, etc.; Tubh is also 3 times so translated in the King James Version (Ge 24:10, the Revised Version (British and American) "goodly things," margin "all the goods"; Ne 9:25, the Revised Version (British and American) "good things"; Job 20:21, the Revised Version (British and American) "prosperity"). Other words, are 'on (Job 20:10, the Revised Version (British and American) "wealth"); Chayil ("force," Nu 31:9; Ze 1:13, the Revised Version (British and American) "wealth"); Tobh (De 28:11, the Revised Version (British and American) "for good"; Ec 5:11); mela'khah ("work," Ex 22:8,11); nikhcin (Aramaic "riches," Ezr 6:8; 7:26); Qinyan, "getting" (Eze 38:12 f). We have ta huparchonta (literally, "the things existing") in Mt 24:47, "ruler over all his goods," the Revised Version (British and American) "all that he hath," etc. Agathos is translated "goods" in Lu 12:18 f; skeuos ("instrument") in Mt 12:29; Mr 3:27; ta sa ("the things belonging to thee") in Lu 6:30; ousia ("substance") in Lu 15:12, the Revised Version (British and American) "substance"; huparxis ("existence," "substance") in Ac 2:45; plouteo ("to be rich") in Re 3:17, the Revised Version (British and American) "have gotten riches." In the Revised Version (British and American) "goods" stands instead of "carriage" (Jud 18:21), of "stuff" (Lu 17:31), of "good" (1 Joh 3:17). "Goods" was used in the sense of "possessions" generally; frequently in this sense in Apocrypha (1 Esdras 6:32); ta huparchonta (Tobit 1:20); Ecclesiasticus 5:1, "Set not thy heart upon thy goods" (chrema), etc.

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. pl. 1. Movables, effects, chattels, furniture. 2. Commodities, wares, merchandise.

Moby Thesaurus

ability, ableness, account, acquaintance, acquest, adequacy, announcement, baggage, blue book, briefing, bulletin, bump, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, cargo, catalog goods, chattels, cloth, commodities, communication, communique, competence, consignment, consumer goods, consumer items, data, datum, directory, dispatch, dower, dowry, drapery, effects, efficacy, efficiency, endowment, enlightenment, equipment, estate and effects, etoffe, evidence, fabric, facility, facts, factual information, faculty, familiarization, felt, fitness, flair, forte, freight, freightage, gen, general information, genius, gift, goods for sale, guidebook, handout, hard information, havings, hereditament, holdings, impedimenta, incidental information, incorporeal hereditament, info, information, instinct, instruction, intelligence, inventory, it, job lot, knowledge, lace, lading, light, line, line of goods, load, long suit, luggage, mail-order goods, makings, material, mention, merchandise, message, metier, napery, natural endowment, natural gift, not an illusion, notice, notification, pack, parts, payload, possessions, potential, power, powers, presentation, proficiency, promotional material, proof, properties, property, publication, publicity, qualification, rag, release, report, shipment, sidelight, sideline, silk, speciality, staples, statement, stock, stock-in-trade, strong flair, strong point, stuff, sufficiency, susceptibility, talent, talents, textile, textile fabric, texture, the article, the dope, the genuine article, the goods, the know, the scoop, the stuff, the very model, the very thing, tissu, tissue, transmission, vendibles, wares, weave, web, weft, what it takes, white book, white paper, woof, wool, word