Gara גָּרַע

Gara (Hebrew גָּרַע, Strong's H1639) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to dimish”. It occurs 22 times in 21 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Gara, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• 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; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.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 ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
• 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 bricks of your daily task.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 take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.

Leviticus

• 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 unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.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

• 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 Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel?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 be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.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
  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 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.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 jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.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

• 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 your God which I command you.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
  What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

Job

• Job 15:4
  Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
• Job 15:8
  Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
• 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 exalted.He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
• Job 36:27
  For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

Ecclesiastes

• 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 should fear before him.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

• 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 baldness, and every beard cut off.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

• 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 house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:“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 shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

Ezekiel

• 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 abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.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
  Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.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.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).