Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
KJV Usage: abate, clip, (di-)minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
גָּרַע (ga.ra) — to dimish. 1) to diminish, restrain, withdraw, abate, keep back, do away, take from, clip 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to diminish 1a2) to restrain 1a3) to withdraw 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be withdrawn 1b2) to be restrained 1c) (Piel) to withdraw, draw up
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מִגְרָע
Detach | verb qal
to shear, to cut off = causative action by which humans cut off (part of) their hair
Detach | verb pi
to draw up exact meaning unsure; possibly: = causative action by which deities remove drops of water from a large body of water
Dissociate | verb qal
Collocation: גרע עֵינַיִם
to take (one's) eyes off (someone else), to stop caring literally: to remove (one's) eyes (from someone else); hence: = action by which humans stop taking care of other humans
Restrict | verb qal, verb nif
to remove, to take, to reduce, to diminish, to hold back, to withhold = causative action by which humans cause other humans to be less or no longer involved in a certain activity
EXO 5:8 · EXO 5:11 · EXO 5:19 · EXO 21:10 · LEV 27:18 · NUM 9:7 · NUM 27:4 · NUM 36:3 · NUM 36:3 · NUM 36:4 · DEU 4:2 · DEU 13:1 · JOB 15:4 · JOB 15:8 · ECC 3:14 · JER 26:2 · EZK 16:27
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[גָּרַע] vb. diminish, restrain, withdraw Qal diminish
restrain
withdraw
Niph. be withdrawn
be restrained
Pi. withdraw = draw up
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