# גָּרַע (gara)

Israeli respelling: ga-ra. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1639. 21 Old Testament occurrences.

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

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

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/gara-h1639

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/8) — 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;…
- [Exodus 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/11) — Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
- [Exodus 5:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/19) — And 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 bric…
- [Exodus 21:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/10) — If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
- [Leviticus 27:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/18) — But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unt…
- [Numbers 9:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/7) — And 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…
- [Numbers 27:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/27/4) — Why 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…
- [Numbers 36:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/36/3) — And 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 inh…
- [Numbers 36:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/36/4) — And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto the…
- [Deuteronomy 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/2) — Ye 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…
- [Deuteronomy 12:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/32) — What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
- [Job 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/4) — Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
- [Job 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/8) — Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
- [Job 36:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/7) — He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are e…
- [Job 36:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/27) — For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
- [Ecclesiastes 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/14) — I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men…
- [Isaiah 15:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/15/2) — He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be ba…
- [Jeremiah 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/26/2) — Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s ho…
- [Jeremiah 48:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/37) — For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
- [Ezekiel 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/11) — Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine…
- [Ezekiel 16:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/27) — Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them…