גָּרַע gâraʻ

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: abate, clip, (di-) minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Exodus 5:8 But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
• Exodus 5:11 Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
• Exodus 5:19 The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
• Exodus 21:10 If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
• Leviticus 27:18 But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.
• Numbers 9:7 and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”
• Numbers 27:4 Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”
• Numbers 36:3 But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away.
• Numbers 36:4 And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”
• Deuteronomy 4:2 You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
• Deuteronomy 12:32 See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
• Job 15:4 But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
• Job 15:8 Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
• Job 36:7 He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
• Job 36:27 For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
• Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.
• Isaiah 15:2 Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
• Jeremiah 26:2 “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.
• Jeremiah 48:37 For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.
• Ezekiel 5:11 Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.
• Ezekiel 16:27 Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.