Definition

to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• abate
• clip
• (di-) minish
• do (take) away
• keep back
• restrain
• make small
• withdraw

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.