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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 bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant.” They said, “Do as you have said.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - And he said, “Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” And they said, “No, but we will spend the night in the open square.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:3 - But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - Then he turned to her by the way, and said, “Please let me come in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. So 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 - ‘They shall fill your houses, the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians—which neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to 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 a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - ‘Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King’s Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:21 - Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage 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 aside into fields or vineyards; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23 - Now the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand, and the donkey turned aside out of the way and went into the field. So Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back onto the road.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26 - Then the Angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place where there 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 - “The donkey saw Me and turned aside from Me these three times. If she had not turned aside from Me, surely I would also have killed you by now, and let her live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:27 - ‘Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:32 - “Therefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you 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 - “You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists 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 in which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left from the sentence which they pronounce upon you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - “And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel: Today you are on the verge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, and do not tremble or be terrified because of them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17 - “You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 - ‘Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger, the 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 - “so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or 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 become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will befall you in the latter days, because you 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 strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you 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 would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - So Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Now to his surprise, a young lion came roaring against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - After some time, when he returned to get her, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. And behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the carcass of the lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - So they turned aside there, and came to the house of the young Levite man—to the house of Micah—and greeted him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - They were near Jebus, and the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Come, please, and let us turn aside 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 - But his master said to him, “We will not turn aside here into a city of foreigners, who are not of the children of Israel; we will go on to Gibeah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - They turned aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah. And when he went in, he sat down in the open square of the city, for no one would take them into his house to spend the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:8 - So all the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, nor will any turn back to his house;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - Then they[fn] turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; and they cut down five thousand of them on the highways. Then they pursued them relentlessly up to Gidom, and killed two thousand of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:47

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:1 - Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz had spoken came by. So Boaz said, “Come aside, friend,[fn] sit down here.” So he came 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; they turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - Then Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have done all this wickedness; yet do not turn 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 - So his armorbearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Go then; here I am with you, according to your heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - Then Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed 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 - Then the children of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master; and he reviled them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:19 - So Asahel pursued Abner, and in going he did not turn to the right hand or 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 aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay hold on one of the young men and take his armor for yourself.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - Now when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him privately, and there stabbed him in the stomach, so 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 move the ark of the LORD with him into the City of David; but David took it aside into 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 of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel, “You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:9 - So the LORD became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the LORD 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 eyes of the LORD, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - So Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria. Then Ahab his son reigned in his place.

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