Limitless Word
גָּרַעgâraʻ/gaw-rah'/
HebrewH163921 occurrences (KJV)

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

KJV renders it: abate, clip, (di-) minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.

Where it appears(showing the first 20 of 21)

  • Exod 5:8The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
  • Exod 5:11Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
  • Exod 5:19The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”
  • Exod 21:10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
  • Lev 27:18But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.
  • Num 9:7Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”
  • Num 27:4Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”
  • Num 36:3If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
  • Num 36:4When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
  • Deut 4:2You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
  • Deut 12:32Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
  • Job 15:4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
  • Job 15:8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
  • Job 36:7He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
  • Job 36:27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
  • Eccl 3:14I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
  • Jer 26:2“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.
  • Jer 48:37For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.
  • Ezek 5:11Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.
  • Ezek 16:27See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.