# H1639 גָּרַע

גָּרַע (gâraʻ), Strong’s H1639: to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold KJV: abate, clip, (di-) minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.. Occurs 22…

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*gâraʻ* — to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold

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

Occurs 22 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [גָּרַע] vb. diminish, restrain, withdraw
- Qal
- 1 diminish
- 2 restrain
- 3 withdraw
- Niph.
- 1 be withdrawn
- 2 be restrained
- Pi. withdraw = draw up

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 5:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=8) — You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for…
- [Exodus 5:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=11) — Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
- [Exodus 5:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=19) — The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything…
- [Exodus 21:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=10) — If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
- [Leviticus 27:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/27?v=18) — But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years…
- [Numbers 9:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/9?v=7) — Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer…
- [Numbers 27:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/27?v=4) — Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession…
- [Numbers 36:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/36?v=3) — If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be…
- [Numbers 36:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/36?v=4) — When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe…
- [Deuteronomy 4:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=2) — You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the…