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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 130 times in 124 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 18:5–1Ki 22:43)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:5 - and let me [fn]bring a piece of bread, that you may [fn]refresh your hearts; after that you may pass on, since in such a manner you have passed by your servant.” And they said, “So you shall do, as you have said.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the square.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:3 - Yet he pressed them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - So he turned aside to her by the road and said, “Here now, let me come in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:6 - ‘Then your houses and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians shall be filled, something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they [fn]came upon the earth until this day.’” And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:2 - “You shall not follow [fn]the masses in doing evil, nor shall you [fn]testify in a case so as to turn aside after [fn]the masses in order to [fn]cause justice to be turned aside;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - ‘Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard; we will not even drink water from a well. We will go along the king’s highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we pass through your territory.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:21 - Thus Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the king’s highway until we have passed through your border.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23 - Then the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand, and the donkey turned off from the way and went into the field; so Balaam struck the donkey to turn it back into the way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26 - And the angel of Yahweh passed on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn to the right hand or the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - “And the donkey saw me and turned aside from me these three times. If it had not turned aside from me, I would surely have killed you just now, and let it live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:27 - ‘Let me pass through your land, I will [fn]go only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:32 - “So you shall be careful to do just as Yahweh your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:19 - “You shall not distort justice; you shall not [fn]be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:11 - “According to the [fn]terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - “And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, you are drawing near to the battle against your enemies today. Do not let your heart be faint. Do not be afraid, nor be alarmed, nor be in dread before them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17 -

“You shall not pervert the justice [fn]due a sojourner or [fn]an orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 -

‘Cursed is he who perverts the justice due a sojourner, [fn]orphan, 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 be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29 - “For I know that after my death you will act corruptly and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the last days, for you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking Him to anger with the work of your hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:7 - “Only be strong and very courageous to [fn]be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn aside from it to the right or to the left, so that you may [fn]be prosperous wherever you go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - “Be very strong, then, to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they did not listen to their judges either, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of Yahweh; they did not do as their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 -

Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother, and they came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion came roaring toward him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - Then he returned later to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - They were near the house of Micah, and they recognized the voice of the young man, the Levite. So they turned aside there and said to him, “Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what do you have here?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - Then they turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - They were alongside of Jebus, and the day was almost gone. And the young man said to his master, “Come, please, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - However, his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners who are not of the sons of Israel; but we will pass on by until Gibeah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - Then they turned aside there in order to enter and to spend the night in Gibeah. So [fn]they entered and sat down in the open square of the city. Now no one was taking them into his house to spend the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:8

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Then all the people arose as one man, saying, “Not one of us will go to his tent, nor will any of us turn aside to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - [fn]And the rest turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, but they [fn]caught 5,000 of them on the highways and overtook them [fn]at Gidom and struck down 2,000 of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:1 -

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there, and behold, the kinsman redeemer of whom Boaz spoke was passing by, so he said, “Turn aside, [fn]my fellow, 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 - But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after greedy gain and took bribes and caused justice to turn aside.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - And Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - And his armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart; turn yourself, and here I am with you according to your heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - And Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; you showed lovingkindness to all the sons of Israel when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:53 - Then the sons of Israel returned from hotly pursuing the Philistines and plundered their camps.

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But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to [fn]greet our master, and he rushed at them angrily.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:19 - And Asahel pursued Abner and did not [fn]turn to the right or to the left from following Abner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - So Abner said to him, “[fn]Turn to your right or to your left, and seize one of the young men for yourself, and take for yourself his spoil.” But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel his brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:10 - And David was unwilling to move the ark of Yahweh into the city of David with him; but David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:2 - from the nations concerning which Yahweh had said to the sons of Israel, “You shall not [fn]go along with them, nor shall they [fn]go along with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4 - Now it happened at the time that Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not [fn]wholly devoted to Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

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Now Yahweh was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 - because David did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn away from it, doing what is right in the sight of Yahweh. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

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