גָּרַעgâraʻ
diminish, restrain, withdraw
Pronunciation: gaw-rah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1639
Meanings
Qal: below (Job 36:7; Exodus 21:10; Deuteronomy 13:1)
1. diminish (Exodus 5:8; Exodus 5:19; Deuteronomy 4:2)
2. restrain (Job 15:4; Job 15:8)
3. withdraw (Job 36:7; Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 16:27)
Niph`al
1. be withdrawn (Numbers 36:3; Numbers 36:4; Numbers 27:4)
2. be restrained, withdraw, draw up (Numbers 9:7; Job 36:27)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 22 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 5:8 But still require them to make the same number of bricks as before. Don’t reduce the quota. They are lazy. That’s why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifices to our God.’
- Exodus 5:11 Go and get it yourselves. Find it wherever you can. But you must produce just as many bricks as before!”
- Exodus 5:19 The Israelite foremen could see that they were in serious trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce the number of bricks you make each day.”
- Exodus 21:10 “If a man who has married a slave wife takes another wife for himself, he must not neglect the rights of the first wife to food, clothing, and sexual intimacy.
- Leviticus 27:18 But if the field is dedicated after the Year of Jubilee, the priest will assess the land’s value in proportion to the number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee. Its assessed value is reduced each year.
- Numbers 9:7 and said, “We have become ceremonially unclean by touching a dead body. But why should we be prevented from presenting the Lord’s offering at the proper time with the rest of the Israelites?”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).