Strong's #1639: gara` (pronounced gaw-rah')

a primitive root; to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold:--abate, clip, (di-)minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâra‛

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1b1) to be withdrawn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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Exodus 5:8: "heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they"
Exodus 5:11: "it: yet not aught shall be diminished."
Exodus 5:19: "that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish aught from your bricks"
Exodus 21:10: "her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish."
Leviticus 27:18: "that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy estimation."
Numbers 9:7: "by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering"
Numbers 27:4: "Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because"
Numbers 36:3: "and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot"
Numbers 36:3: "of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance"
Numbers 36:4: "whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."
Deuteronomy 4:2: "I command you, neither shall ye diminish it, that ye may keep the commandments"
Deuteronomy 12:32: "to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, diminish from"
Job 15:4: "thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God."
Job 15:8: "Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to"
Job 36:7: " He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne;"
Job 36:27: "For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor"
Ecclesiastes 3:14: "nothing to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth"
Isaiah 15:2: "shall be baldness, and every beard cut off."
Jeremiah 26:2: "I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:"
Jeremiah 48:37: "shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all shall be cuttings,"
Ezekiel 5:11: "and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare,"
Ezekiel 16:27: "therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate"