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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 - Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.” “Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:3 - But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:6 - They will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians—something neither your parents nor your ancestors have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now.’ ” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:2 - “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - Please let us pass through your country. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the King’s Highway and not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:21 - Since Edom refused to let them go through their territory, Israel turned away from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - “Let us pass through your country. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23 - When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26 - Then the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:27 - “Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:32 - So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:19 - Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:11 - Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - He shall say: “Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17 - Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 - “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29 - For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall on you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD and arouse his anger by what your hands have made.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:7 - “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - “Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned from the ways of their ancestors, who had been obedient to the LORD’s commands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - When they were near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they turned in there and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - So they turned in there and went to the house of the young Levite at Micah’s place and greeted him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Come, let’s stop at this city of the Jebusites and spend the night.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - His master replied, “No. We won’t go into any city whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them in for the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:8 - All the men rose up together as one, saying, “None of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - As they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - But six hundred of them turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:1 - Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer[fn] he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:3 - But his sons did not follow his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - “Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - “Do all that you have in mind,” his armor-bearer said. “Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - Then he said to the Kenites, “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:53 - When the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines, they plundered their camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:19 - He chased Abner, turning neither to the right nor to the left as he pursued him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - Then Abner said to him, “Turn aside to the right or to the left; take on one of the young men and strip him of his weapons.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - Now when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into an inner chamber, as if to speak with him privately. And there, to avenge the blood of his brother Asahel, Joab stabbed him in the stomach, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:10 - He was not willing to take the ark of the LORD to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:2 - They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4 - As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:9 - The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 - For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not failed to keep any of the LORD’s commands all the days of his life—except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - In everything he followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.[fn]

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