'Shrink' in the Bible

then the priest shall adjure the woman with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman: Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to shrink, and thy belly to swell;

and this water that bringeth the curse shall enter into thy bowels, to make the belly to swell, and the thigh to shrink. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she have been defiled, and have committed unfaithfulness against her husband, that the water that bringeth the curse shall enter into her, for bitterness, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall shrink; and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

“Then I would still have consolation,And I would jump for joy amid unsparing pain,That I have not denied or hidden the words of the Holy One.

When it is warm, they are silent and cease to flow;When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

My son, do not reject or take lightly the discipline of the Lord [learn from your mistakes and the testing that comes from His correction through discipline];Nor despise His rebuke,

My Lord GOD has opened my ears, and I did not rebel; I did not shrink back.

“And it will come about that all who see youWill shrink from you and say,‘Nineveh is devastated!Who will grieve for her?’Where will I seek comforters for you?”

and that I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you anything that was profitable or from teaching it to you in public and from house to house.

for I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole plan of God.

For this is the will of God, that you be sanctified [separated and set apart from sin]: that you abstain and back away from sexual immorality;

Abstain from every form of evil [withdraw and keep away from it].

But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.

But they have gained the victory over him because of the blood of the Lamb and of the testimony which they have borne, and because they held their lives cheap and did not shrink even from death.