Gâraʻ — H1639

Definition

verb

to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold

1. to diminish, restrain, withdraw, abate, keep back, do away, take from, clip
1. (Qal)
1. to diminish
2. to restrain
3. to withdraw
2. (Niphal)
1. to be withdrawn
2. to be restrained
3. (Piel) to withdraw, draw up

Usually translated as

diminish, minish, restrain, make small, abate, clip, do, away, keep back, withdraw

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• apoleípō (G620)
• aposteréō (G650)
• apōthéomai (G683)
• aphairéō (G851)
• aphiknéomai (G864)
• exaírō (G1808)
• exaleíphō (G1813)
• xyráō (G3587)
• synteléō (G4931)
• hysteréō (G5302)

Occurrences

Gâraʻ occurs 22 times in 21 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (4), Leviticus (1), Numbers (4), Deuteronomy (2), Job (4), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (2)

• Exodus 5:8 — And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish (תִגְרְע֖וּ) ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
• Exodus 5:11 — Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished (נִגְרָ֛ע).
• Exodus 5:19 — And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish (תִגְרְע֥וּ) ought from your bricks of your daily task.
• Exodus 21:10 — If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish (יִגְרָֽע).
• Leviticus 27:18 — But 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 (וְנִגְרַ֖ע) from thy estimation.
• Numbers 9:7 — And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back (נִגָּרַ֗ע), that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
• Numbers 27:4 — Why should the name of our father be done away (יִגָּרַ֤ע) from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
• Numbers 36:3 — And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken (וְנִגְרְעָ֤ה) 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 36:3 — And 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 (יִגָּרֵֽעַ) from the lot of our inheritance.
• Numbers 36:4 — And 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 (יִגָּרַ֖ע) from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
• Deuteronomy 4:2 — Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish (תִגְרְע֖וּ) ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
• Deuteronomy 12:32 — What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish (תִגְרַ֖ע) from it.
• Job 15:4 — Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest (וְתִגְרַ֥ע) prayer before God.
• Job 15:8 — Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain (וְתִגְרַ֖ע) wisdom to thyself?
• Job 36:7 — He withdraweth (יִגְרַ֥ע) not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
• Job 36:27 — For he maketh small (יְגָרַ֣ע) the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
• Ecclesiastes 3:14 — I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken (לִגְרֹ֑עַ) from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
• Isaiah 15:2 — He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off (גְּרוּעָֽה).
• Jeremiah 26:2 — Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish (תִּגְרַ֖ע) not a word:
• Jeremiah 48:37 — For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped (גְּרֻעָ֑ה): upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
• Ezekiel 5:11 — Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish (אֶגְרַע֙) thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
• Ezekiel 16:27 — Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished (וָאֶגְרַ֖ע) thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.