Diminish
Diminish
di-minish: the Revised Version (British and American) has retained nearly all passages of the King James Version where to diminish is used. Some of these uses have become obsolete: Deu 4:2, neither shall ye diminish from it. Diminish generally means to reduce, to lessen. In this sense it is employed in Eze 5:11 from the Hebrew , gara, literally, to shear. The picture of shearing the beard, expressing degradation and loss of manhood, may underlie this passage.