Words the Bible translates as diminish
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ḥaserחָסֵרto be short of something needed, to lack or run low; and so to make something or someone fall short, to deprive
- garaגָּרַעto take part of something away, so that less of it is left: to diminish, reduce, withdraw, or hold back
- ma'atמָעַטto be few, or to make few: to shrink in number or amount, or to reduce something and hand out only a little
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