To dimish
גָּרַעStrong’s H1639gara (ga-ra)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gara is the Hebrew word usually translated “diminish”, “diminished” and “it will be withdrawn”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- To diminish, restrain, withdraw, abate, keep back, do away, take from, clip(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) to withdraw, draw up
How it's translated
- you will diminish 2
- diminished 2
- it will be withdrawn 2
- you must diminish 2
- he will reduce 1
- and it will be deducted 1
- are we restrained 1
- will it be withdrawn 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 4
- Numbers 4
- Job 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 5:11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
- 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.
- Exodus 21:10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
- Leviticus 27:18But 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 from thy estimation.
- 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 27:4Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּרַע gara · to dimish
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back, do away, take from, clip 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to diminish 1a2) to restrain 1a3) to withdraw 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be withdrawn 1b2) to be restrained 1c) (Piel) to withdraw, draw up
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dimish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DIMISH, adjective
[from dim.]
Somewhat dim, or obscure.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.