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Lexicon :: Strong's G1578 - ekklinō

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ἐκκλίνω
Transliteration
ekklinō (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-klee'-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἐκκλίνω ekklínō, ek-klee'-no; from G1537 and G2827; to deviate, i.e. (absolutely) to shun (literally or figuratively), or (relatively) to decline (from piety):—avoid, eschew, go out of the way.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G1578 in the following manner: eschew (1x), avoid (1x), go out of the way (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G1578 in the following manner: eschew (1x), avoid (1x), go out of the way (1x).

  1. to turn aside, deviate (from the right way and course)

  2. to turn (one's self) away, to turn away from, keep aloof from one's society

  3. to shun one

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐκκλίνω ekklínō, ek-klee'-no; from G1537 and G2827; to deviate, i.e. (absolutely) to shun (literally or figuratively), or (relatively) to decline (from piety):—avoid, eschew, go out of the way.
STRONGS G1578:
ἐκκλίνω [Romans 16:17 T Tr WH]; 1 aorist ἐξέκλινα; in Greek writings from Thucydides down; Sept. chiefly for סוּר and נָטָה; intransitive, to turn aside, deviate (from the right way and course, Malachi 2:8, [cf. Deuteronomy 5:32]); metaphorically and absolutely, to turn (oneself) away [Buttmann, 144f (126f); Winer's Grammar, 251 (236)], either from the path of rectitude, Romans 3:12 (Psalm 13:3 (Ps. 14:3)); or from evil (a malis declinare, Cicero, Tusc. 4, 6): ἀπὸ κακοῦ, 1 Peter 3:11 (Psalm 33:15 (Ps. 34:15); Psalm 36:27 (Ps. 37:27); Proverbs 3:7); ἀπό with the genitive of person to turn away from, keep aloof from, one's society; to shun one: Romans 16:17, (οὕς, Ignatius ad Eph. 7, 1).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
5:32
Psalms
13:3; 14:3; 33:15; 34:15; 37:27
Proverbs
3:7
Malachi
2:8
Romans
3:12; 16:17; 16:17
1 Peter
3:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1578 matches the Greek ἐκκλίνω (ekklinō),
which occurs 132 times in 126 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 18:5–1Ki 16:28)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:5 - And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:3 - And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:6 - And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:2 - Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:21 - Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23 - And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26 - And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:27 - Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:32 - Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:19 - Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:11 - According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17 - Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 - Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29 - For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:7 - Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:8 - And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:1 - Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:3 - And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:53 - And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:19 - And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:10 - So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:2 - Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4 - For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:9 - And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 - Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

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