'Reduce' in the Bible

But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are slackers—that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You cannot reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.

I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory:

Now you plan to reduce the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, to slavery. Are you not also guilty before Yahweh your God?

Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

"If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?"

He doth remember all thy presents, And thy burnt-offering doth reduce to ashes. Selah.

Discipline me, Lord, but with justice—not in Your anger,or You will reduce me to nothing.

I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another."'"

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.

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.

Therefore {as surely as I live}, {declares} the Lord Yahweh, {Surely} because you have defiled my sanctuary with all of your vile idols and with all of your detestable things, {now indeed I} will reduce, and my eye will not take pity, and surely I will show no compassion.

asking, “When will the New Moon be overso we may sell grain,and the Sabbath,so we may market wheat?We can reduce the measurewhile increasing the priceand cheat with dishonest scales.

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;