Bible Dictionary: Reduce

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

2. (n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.

3. (n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.

4. (n.) To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.

5. (n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.

6. (n.) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.

7. (n.) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.

8. (n.) To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.

9. (n.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.

Greek

5077. tephroo -- to burn to ashes
... to burn to ashes. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: tephroo Phonetic Spelling:
(tef-ro'-o) Short Definition: I reduce to ashes Definition: I reduce to ashes ...
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1848. exoutheneo -- to despise, treat with contempt
... 1848 (from 1537 , "completely out from," which intensifies , "bring to naught, reduce
to nothing") -- properly, cast as nothing; set at nought; "to count as ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4591. maat -- to be or become small, diminished, or few
... 2), dwindles (1), few (2), fewness (1), get a few (1), give less (1), had little
(1), least (1), little (1), make so small (1), pay less (1), reduce (1), seem ...
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1639. gara -- to diminish, restrain, withdraw
... restrain, withdraw NASB Word Usage cut off (1), cut short (1), deducted (1), diminished
(1), draws (1), hinder (1), limit (1), omit (1), reduce (3), reduced (1 ...
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4107. mahal -- to circumcise, weaken
... mixed. A primitive root; properly, to cut down or reduce, ie By implication, to
adulterate -- mixed. 4106, 4107. mahal. 4108 . Strong's Numbers.
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8239. shaphath -- to set (on the fire)
... bring, ordain, set on. A primitive root; to locate, ie (generally) hang on or
(figuratively) establish, reduce -- bring, ordain, set on. 8238, 8239. ...
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Library

I May Briefly Reduce the Chief Persuading Motive to this So ...
... A TREATISE OF CHRISTIAN LOVE. John xiii. 35. Chapter III. I may briefly reduce
the chief persuading motive to this so needful and so much� ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/chapter iii i may briefly.htm

How we are to Reduce all the Exercise of the virtues, and all Our ...
... THE SOUL. CHAPTER XIII. HOW WE ARE TO REDUCE ALL THE EXERCISE OF THE VIRTUES,
AND ALL OUR ACTIONS TO HOLY LOVE. Brute beasts, being ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xiii how we are.htm

Immediately after This, as if Doing his Utmost to Reduce the Human ...
... Chapter LXXXVI. Immediately after this, as if doing his utmost to reduce
the human race to a� Immediately after this, as if doing ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter lxxxvi immediately after this.htm

Excursus on the Word Theotokos .
... There have been some who have tried to reduce all the great theological controversies
on the Trinity and on the Incarnation to mere logomachies, and have ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/excursus on the word theotokos.htm

Of the Meaning of the Sacrifice Abraham was Commanded to Offer ...
... And He said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a
land not theirs, and they shall reduce them to servitude and shall afflict them ...
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Whether There be one Supreme Evil which is the Cause of Every Evil ...
... Likewise, because they found two contrary particular causes of two contrary particular
effects, they did not know how to reduce these contrary particular ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether there be one supreme.htm

That the Self-Existent Being must be All-Powerful.
... Why, only because they are not able to comprehend how it can be: For, to reduce
it to a contradiction, (which is the alone real impossibility,) this they are ...
/.../x proposition x that the.htm

The Blame of Our Misdeeds not to be Cast Upon God the one Power ...
... by the devil; who, albeit he does will that you should will something which God
nills still does not make you will it, inasmuch as he did not reduce those our ...
/.../tertullian/on exhortation to chastity/chapter ii the blame of our.htm

The First Experiment
... THE FIRST EXPERIMENT. THEN you reduce religion to a common Friendship? ... Yet it is
perhaps not possible to reduce this problem to much more rigid elements. ...
/.../the greatest thing in the world and other addresses/the first experiment.htm

The Doctrine of the Christians as to the Creation of the World.
... I who converse do not become destitute of speech (logos) by the transmission of
speech, but by the utterance of my voice I endeavour to reduce to order the ...
/.../tatian/tatians address to the greeks/chapter v the doctrine of the.htm

Thesaurus

Reduce (13 Occurrences)
... bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value,
etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant ...
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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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Subdue (26 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and
bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. ...
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Lower (72 Occurrences)
... 3. (v.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a
chimney or turret. ... 7. (v.) To reduce in value, amount, etc. ...
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Degrade (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To lessen in value or quality; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman,
or a general officer; to reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree ...
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Qualify (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular
or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to ...
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Reclaim (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (vt) To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said
especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals. ...
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Resolve (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; --
said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve. ...
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Reduced (16 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Reduce. Multi-Version Concordance
Reduced (16 Occurrences). Acts 7:6 And God declared that ...
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Diminish (22 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in
bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase. ...
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Bible Concordance

Reduce (13 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 1:28 and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist;
(WEY)

Exodus 5:8 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying,'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'
(See NAS NIV)

Exodus 5:19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"
(See NAS NIV)

Exodus 21:10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
(See NAS)

Leviticus 26:22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.
(See NAS)

Job 11:3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
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Job 24:25 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"
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Psalms 20:3 He doth remember all thy presents, And thy burnt-offering doth reduce to ashes. Selah.
(YLT)

Isaiah 41:15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.
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Jeremiah 10:24 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 25:14 For many nations and great kings shall reduce them to subjection also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
(WBS)

Jeremiah 27:7 And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his land also come, when many nations and great kings shall reduce him to servitude.
(DBY)

Jeremiah 30:8 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more reduce him to servitude.
(DBY)

Subtopics

Reduce

Related Terms

Abate (2 Occurrences)

Subdue (26 Occurrences)

Lower (72 Occurrences)

Degrade (1 Occurrence)

Qualify (2 Occurrences)

Reclaim (1 Occurrence)

Resolve (3 Occurrences)

Reduced (16 Occurrences)

Diminish (22 Occurrences)