H1639 גָּרַע
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 21 KJV occurrences
גָּרַע
gâraʻ · gaw-rah'
Definition
to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
KJV Renderings
abate, clip, (di-) minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 21)
- 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 5:19And 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Job 15:8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
- Job 36:27For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
- Jeremiah 48:37For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.