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Hebrew verb · H1639

גָּרַע

garagaw-rah'

to dimish

22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: gâraʻ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1639is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 21
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1639

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

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

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

gara is rendered "to dimish". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 5:8But 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.’
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.

The first use

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 5:8תִגְרְע֖וּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in nine of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • diminished2
  • it will be withdrawn2
  • you must diminish2
  • you will diminish2
  • and I diminished1
  • and it will be deducted1
  • and it will be withdrawn1
  • and you may restrain1
  • are we restrained1
  • clipped1
  • he draws up1
  • he will reduce1

and 6 more, 22 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

גָּרַשׁgarashto drive out: drive outUses46
גָּרָהgarahto stir upUses14
גָּרוֹןgaronthroatUses8
גָּרַרgararto drag/chew/sawUses6
גָּרָבgarabscabUses3
גָּרַםgaramto reserveUses3
גָּרַסgarasto breakUses2
גָּרַדgaradto scrapeUses1
גָּרַזgarazto cut offUses1
גָּרַףgaraphto sweep awayUses1
גָּרֹלgarolharshUsesnot recorded

All 22, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

21 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • תִגְרְע֖וּ2
  • אֶגְרַע֙1
  • גְּרוּעָֽה׃1
  • גְּרֻעָ֑ה1
  • וָאֶגְרַ֖ע1
  • וְנִגְרַ֖ע1
  • וְנִגְרְעָ֤ה1
  • וְתִגְרַ֥ע1
  • וְתִגְרַ֖ע1
  • יְגָרַ֣ע1
  • יִגְרַ֥ע1
  • יִגָּרַ֤ע1

and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVNi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural3HVqi2mp
  • HC/Vqu2ms2HC/Vqu2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular2HVqsfsa
  • Hc/VNq3fs1Hc/VNq3fs
  • Hc/VNq3ms1Hc/VNq3ms
  • Hc/Vqw1cs1Hc/Vqw1cs
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural1HVNi1cp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HVNrmsa
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms

Exodus

four uses
  • 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 5:8

    • תִגְרְע֖וּtigreuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will diminish
  • Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”

    Exodus 5:11

    • נִגְרָ֛עnigra'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: diminished
  • The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

    Exodus 5:19

    • תִגְרְע֥וּtigreuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will diminish
  • If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.

    Exodus 21:10

    • יִגְרָֽע׃yigra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will reduce

Leviticus

one use
  • 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.

    Leviticus 27:18

    • וְנִגְרַ֖עvenigra'Hc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be deducted

Numbers

five uses
  • 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 9:7

    • נִגָּרַ֗עnigara'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: are we restrained
  • 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 27:4

    • יִגָּרַ֤עyigara'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will it be withdrawn
  • 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 36:3

    • וְנִגְרְעָ֤הvenigreahHc/VNq3fstagged: and it will be withdrawn
    • יִגָּרֵֽעַ׃yigarea'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be withdrawn
  • 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.”

    Numbers 36:4

    • יִגָּרַ֖עyigara'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be withdrawn

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • 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 4:2

    • תִגְרְע֖וּtigreuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you must diminish
  • See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

    Deuteronomy 12:32

    • תִגְרַ֖עtigra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you must diminish

Job

four uses
  • But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.

    Job 15:4

    • וְתִגְרַ֥עvetigra'HC/Vqu2mstagged: so you may diminish
  • Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

    Job 15:8

    • וְתִגְרַ֖עvetigra'HC/Vqu2mstagged: and you may restrain
  • He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.

    Job 36:7

    • יִגְרַ֥עyigra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he withdraws
  • For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

    Job 36:27

    • יְגָרַ֣עyegara'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he draws up

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • 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.

    Ecclesiastes 3:14

    • לִגְרֹ֑עַligroa'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to take away

Isaiah

one use
  • 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.

    Isaiah 15:2

    • גְּרוּעָֽה׃geruahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: diminished

Jeremiah

two uses
  • “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 26:2

    • תִּגְרַ֖עtigra'verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hold back
  • For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

    Jeremiah 48:37

    • גְּרֻעָ֑הgeruahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: clipped

Ezekiel

two uses
  • 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 5:11

    • אֶגְרַע֙ʾegra'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will shave
  • 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.

    Ezekiel 16:27

    • וָאֶגְרַ֖עvaegra'Hc/Vqw1cstagged: and I diminished

The letters

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How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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