KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of diminish, meaning to make or become less; to reduce, lessen, take away from, withhold part of, or decrease in amount, extent, strength, rank, or number.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 5:11
Complete exact-word concordance
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Goe ye, get you straw where you can find it: yet not ought of your worke shall be diminished.
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Wealth gotten by vanitie shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour, shall increase.
1611 marginal noteHeb. with the hand.
1611 marginal noteChap. 10.2. & 20.21.
And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.
And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar shalbe diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
1611 marginal noteHeb. bowes
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Take ye wiues, and beget sonnes and daughters, and take wiues for your sonnes, and giue your daughters to husbands, that they may beare sonnes and daughters, that ye may bee increased there, and not diminished.
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Behold therefore, I haue stretched out my hand ouer thee, and haue diminished thine ordinarie foode, and deliuered thee vnto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
1611 marginal noteOr, cities.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Lessened; made smaller; reduced in size; contracted; degraded.
