'Lighten' in the Bible

So you shall make replicas of your tumors and of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will lighten His hand [of judgment] on you and your gods and your land.

“Your father made our yoke (burden) heavy; so now lighten the hard labor and the heavy yoke your father imposed on us, and we will serve you.”

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;Give light (life) to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

Then the sailors were afraid, and each man cried out to his god; and to lighten the ship [and diminish the danger] they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea. But Jonah had gone below into the hold of the ship and had lain down and was sound asleep.

After they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat [from Egypt] overboard into the sea.