Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H1639
גָּרַע
ga.ra · “to dimish”
Used 22 times across 9 books
Definition
1) to diminish, restrain, withdraw, abate, keep back, do away, take from, clip
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to diminish
1a2) to restrain
1a3) to withdraw
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be withdrawn
1b2) to be restrained
1c) (Piel) to withdraw, draw up
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to diminish
1a2) to restrain
1a3) to withdraw
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be withdrawn
1b2) to be restrained
1c) (Piel) to withdraw, draw up
Where it appears
Exodus4
Leviticus1
Numbers5
Deuteronomy2
Job4
Ecclesiastes1
Isaiah1
Jeremiah2
Ezekiel2
In the text
Exodus 5:8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.Exodus 5:11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.Exodus 5:19And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.Exodus 21:10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.Leviticus 27:18But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.Numbers 9:7And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel?Numbers 27:4Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.Numbers 36:3And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.Numbers 36:4And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.Deuteronomy 4:2Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
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