גָּרַע

Exodus 5:8 תִגְרְע֖וּ you will diminish

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 נִגְרָ֛ע [is] diminished

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”

Exodus 5:19 תִגְרְע֥וּ you will diminish

The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

Exodus 21:10 יִגְרָֽע׃ he will reduce

If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.

Leviticus 27:18 וְנִגְרַ֖ע and it will be deducted

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 9:7 נִגָּרַ֗ע are we restrained

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Numbers 27:4 יִגָּרַ֤ע will it be withdrawn

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Numbers 36:3 וְנִגְרְעָ֤ה יִגָּרֵֽעַ׃ and it will be withdrawn, it will be withdrawn

But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry.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Numbers 36:4 יִגָּרַ֖ע it will be withdrawn

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 4:2 תִגְרְע֖וּ you must diminish

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.

Here: 'You shall cut back / take away.' The verb is used for clipping a beard, cutting a quota and shrinking an inheritance. Here it means trimming down the word given.

Deuteronomy 12:32 תִגְרַ֖ע you must diminish

See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

Here: Singular, 'you shall not cut down'. It means shaving something down or holding back part of what is owed, the way a quota or a portion can be reduced.

Job 15:4 וְתִגְרַ֥ע so you may diminish

But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.

Here: To take away from something or cut it down, the verb of Deuteronomy 4:2's "do not take away from it." Eliphaz says Job is shrinking what people say to God and think about before him. He uses the same verb again in 15:8, where he accuses Job of keeping wisdom to himself.

Job 15:8 וְתִגְרַ֖ע and you may restrain?

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

Here: Used with "to yourself", it means pulling something away from others and drawing it to yourself, as if Job had cornered the supply of wisdom so that nobody else has any. Eliphaz used the same verb in v. 4 ("you diminish devotion before God"). The repeated word sharpens the charge: Job takes away piety from God and draws off wisdom for himself.

Job 36:7 יִגְרַ֥ע he withdraws

He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.

Here: 'Take away, reduce, hold back.' The imperfect form describes what God habitually does: he never subtracts his attention from the righteous, not even a little.

Job 36:27 יְגָרַ֣ע he draws up

For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

Ecclesiastes 3:14 לִגְרֹ֑עַ to take away

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.

Here: 'To take away', 'to shave off'. Elsewhere the verb is used for trimming a beard (Jer 48:37) or reducing a quota (Exod 5:8). No one can trim God's work down.

Isaiah 15:2 גְּרוּעָֽה׃ [is] diminished

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.

Here: 'Clipped off': the beard is cut down or shorn. Some manuscripts read a near-identical word meaning 'hacked off.'

Jeremiah 26:2 תִּגְרַ֖ע you hold back

“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.

Here: To reduce, trim or subtract from something. Jeremiah must not shorten or soften the message by leaving anything out.

Jeremiah 48:37 גְּרֻעָ֑ה [will be] clipped

For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

Here: A passive participle, 'reduced, cut away'. The beard is not neatly trimmed. It has been hacked down or shorn off as a sign of grief and disgrace.

Ezekiel 5:11 אֶגְרַע֙ I will shave [you]

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.

Here: 'I will clip / cut back / withdraw'. No object is stated. The word recalls the shaving of the prophet's hair in 5:1, since the same root describes clipped beards (Isa 15:2; Jer 48:37). It can also mean withdrawing (one's eyes or favour), as in Job 36:7.

Ezekiel 16:27 וָאֶגְרַ֖ע and I diminished

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.

Here: "And I cut back." This is the verb Exodus 21:10 uses when it forbids a husband to cut back his wife's food, clothing and marital rights. The husband in this allegory does exactly that, as a penalty.