What is…
abated in the Bible

Meaning: to decrease in amount; reduction of intensity, force, degree, etc.

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. —Genesis 8:3 KJV

Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; —Genesis 8:8 KJV

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. —Genesis 8:11 KJV

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. —Deuteronomy 34:7 KJV

…Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. —Judges 8:3 KJV excerpt

List of Archaic Middle English words used in the King James Bible (with links to definitions)