Gara means “scrape off” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1639 — elamites (“Elamite”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1639 גָּרַע (gara`) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gara` (gaw-rah') v. 1. to scrape off 2. (by implication) to shave, remove, lessen, withhold It has 21 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include off, minish, and do. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
gara` (gaw-rah') v. 1. to scrape off 2. (by implication) to shave, remove, lessen, withhold [a primitive root] KJV: abate, clip, (di-)minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.
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to dimish
Usage: 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back, do away, take from, clip 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to diminish 1a2) to restrain 1a3) to withdraw 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be withdrawn 1b2) to be restrained 1c) (Piel) to withdraw, draw up
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gara`, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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.
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
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.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1639.
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.
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
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.
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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.
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
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.
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.
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:
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
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.
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.
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Gara (Strong's H1639) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "scrape off". gara` (gaw-rah') v. 1. to scrape off 2. (by implication) to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H1639 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1639 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as off, minish, and do. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.