גָּרַע gâraʻ — to scrape off
Translated in the KJV as abate, clip, minish, do away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.
a primitive root; to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold.
gâraʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Participle (passive) 2Infinitive construct 1Jussive 1Wayyiqtol 1
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.
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.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Participle (active) 1
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
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?
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›