Bible Concordance
Decrease (4 Occurrences)John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Leviticus 25:16 According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you. (See NIV)
Psalms 107:38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 29:6 Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don't be diminished. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Thesaurus
Decrease (4 Occurrences)... to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc.,
or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days
decrease in length from
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... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To be diminished; to decline; to decrease; --
contrasted with wax, applied to moon phases. ... 3. (vt) To cause to decrease. ...
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Increase (184 Occurrences)
... or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority,
reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease. ...
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Abate (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To reduce; to decrease; to diminish; as, the winds abated; to contract;
to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. ...
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Sink (16 Occurrences)
... To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness
or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. ...
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Quantity (18 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being
measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division ...
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Lessen (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as,
the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care ...
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Lower (72 Occurrences)
... interest, etc. 8. (vi) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease;
as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose. 9. (vi ...
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Waste (668 Occurrences)
... wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure;
devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use ...
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Decorous (1 Occurrence)
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Greek
1642. elattoo -- to make less (in rank or influence) ... Word Origin from elasson Definition to make less (in rank or influence) NASB Word
Usage
decrease (1), lower (2), made (2).
decrease, make lower.
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