gara · reduce, take away

What it means

gara (גָּרַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “reduce, take away”.

A part, diminish.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To subtract something from an amount or a law.
2. To keep something back, pull it away.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• reduce ×3
• will be taken away ×3
• shaved off ×2
• take away ×2
• withdraw ×2
• be taken away ×1
• diminish ×1
• he draws off ×1
• hold back ×1
• it shall be deducted ×1
• others ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×5
• Deuteronomy×2
• Job×4
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×2

• Exodus 5:8

  But the quota of bricks that they were making before you shall impose on them; you shall not reduce any of it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our Elohim.’

• Exodus 5:11

  You go and get yourselves straw wherever you can find it, for not a thing will be reduced from your work.’”

• Exodus 5:19

  The supervisors of the sons of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You shall not reduce any of your bricks, each day’s task on its day.”

• Exodus 21:10

  If he takes another wife for himself, he shall not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

• Leviticus 27:18

  But if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest shall calculate for him the silver according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and it shall be deducted from the valuation.

• Numbers 9:7

  And those men said to him, “We are unclean through a dead human being. Why should we be kept back from presenting the offering of YHWH at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?”

• Numbers 27:4

  Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family because he has no son? Give us a possession among the brothers of our father.”

• Numbers 36:3

  But if they become wives to one of the sons of the tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

• Numbers 36:4

  And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel comes, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers their inheritance will be taken away.”

• Deuteronomy 4:2

  You shall not add to the word that I am commanding you, nor take away from it, so as to keep the commandments of YHWH your Elohim that I am commanding you.

• Deuteronomy 12:32

  Every word that I am commanding you, you shall be careful to carry it out; you shall not add to it and you shall not take away from it.

• Job 15:4

  You, moreover, annul the fear, and diminish meditation before El.

• Job 15:8

  In the intimate counsel of Eloah do you listen, and reserve wisdom for yourself?

• Job 36:7

  He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, and with kings on the throne he seats them forever, and they are exalted.

• Job 36:27

  For he draws off drops of water; they distill rain for his mist,

• Ecclesiastes 3:14

  I knew that all that Elohim does it will be forever; to it there is no adding, and from it there is no taking away; and Elohim has done it so that they fear before him.

• Isaiah 15:2

  He goes up to the house and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails; on all its heads baldness, every beard shaved off.

• Jeremiah 26:2

  “Thus says YHWH: Stand in the court of the house of YHWH, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to bow down in the house of YHWH all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.

• Jeremiah 48:37

  For every head is baldness, and every beard shaved off; on all hands gashes, and on the loins sackcloth.

• Ezekiel 5:11

  Therefore, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, I too will withdraw, and my eye will not spare, and I too will not show pity.

• Ezekiel 16:27

  And look, I have stretched out my hand against you and withdrawn your allotted portion, and given you to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your way of infamy.

And 1 more times.