Exodus 5:8
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.
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Ezekiel 29:15
It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
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גָּרַע
gâraʻ · gaw-rah'
6 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
Strong's KJV usage: abate, clip, (di-) minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.
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Strong's first: Exodus 5:8Strong's last: Ezekiel 5:11
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mâʻaṭ · maw-at'
2 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)
Strong's KJV usage: suffer to decrease, diminish, (be, × borrow a, give, make) few (in number, -ness), gather least (little), be (seem) little, (× give the) less, be minished, bring to nothing.
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Strong's first: Leviticus 25:16Strong's last: Ezekiel 29:15
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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.
H1639
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
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diminish
DIMINISH, verb transitive [Latin , to lessen; less.]
1. To lessen; to make less or smaller, by any means; opposed to increase and augment; as, to diminish the size of a thing by contraction, or by cutting off a part; to diminish a number by subtraction; to diminish the revenue by limiting commerce, or reducing the customs; to diminish strength or safety; to diminish the heat of a room. It is particularly applied to bulk and quantity, as shorten is to length.
2. To lessen; to impair; to degrade.
I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezekiel 29:15.
3. In music, to take from a note by a sharp, flat or natural.
To diminish from, to take away something.
Neither shall you diminish aught from it Deuteronomy 4:2.
DIMINISH, verb intransitive To lessen; to become or appear less or smaller. The size of an object diminishes, as we recede from it.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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