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Lexicon :: Strong's G1578 - ekklinō

Aa
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).
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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 I will bring bread, and ye shall eat, and after this ye shall depart on your journey, on account of which refreshment ye have turned aside to your servant. And he said, So do, as thou hast said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - Lo! my lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning ye shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, but we will lodge in the street.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:3 - And he constrained them, and they turned aside to him, and they entered into his house, and he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened cakes for them, and they did eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - And he went out of [fn]his way to her, and said to her, Let me come in to thee; for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law; and she said, What wilt thou give me if thou shouldest come in to me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:6 - And thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of thy servants, and all the houses in all the land of the Egyptians; things which thy fathers have never seen, nor their forefathers, from the day that they were upon the earth until this day. And Moses turned away and departed from Pharao.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:2 - Thou shalt not associate with the multitude for evil; thou shalt not join thyself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - We will pass through thy land: we will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, nor will we drink water out of thy cistern: we will go by the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed thy borders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:21 - So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through his borders, and Israel turned away from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - We will not drink water out of thy well; we will go by the king's highway, until we have past thy boundaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23 - And when the ass saw the angel of God standing opposite in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand, then the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field; and Balaam smote the ass with his staff to direct her in the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:26 - And the angel of the Lord went farther, and came and stood in a narrow place where it was impossible to turn to the right or the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - And if she had not turned out of the way, surely now, I should have slain thee, and should have saved her alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:27 - I will pass through thy land: I will go by the road, I will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:32 - And ye shall take heed to do as the Lord thy God commanded thee; ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:19 - they shall not wrest judgment, nor favour persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:11 - Thou shalt do according to the law and to the judgment which they shall declare to thee: thou shalt not swerve to the right hand or to the left from any sentence which they shall report to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - Hear, O Israel; ye are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint, fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17 - Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; thou shalt not take the widow's garment for a pledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 - Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - (LXX 29:17) Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29 - For I know that after my death ye will utterly transgress, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you; and evils shall come upon you [fn]in the latter days, because ye will do evil before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:7 - Be strong, therefore, and quit thyself like a man, to observe and do as Moses my servant commanded thee; and thou shalt not turn [fn]therefrom to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest be wise in whatsoever thou mayest do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - Do ye therefore strive diligently to observe and do all things written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not to the right hand or to the left;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - for they went a whoring after other gods, and worshipped them; and they turned quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked to hearken to the words of the Lord; they did not so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - And Sampson and his father and his mother went down to Thamnatha, and he came to the vineyard of Thamnatha; and behold, a young lion roared [fn]in meeting him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - And after [fn]some time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees, and honey were in the mouth of the lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - in the house of Michaias, and they recognised the voice of the young man the Levite, and turned in thither; and said to him, Who brought thee in hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - And they turned aside there, and went into the house of the young man, the Levite, even into the house of Michaias, and asked him [fn]how he was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - And they came as far as Jebus: and the day had far advanced, and the young man said to his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites, and let us lodge in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - And his master said to him, We will not turn aside to a strange city, where there is not one of the children of Israel, but we will pass on as far as Gabaa.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - And they turned aside thence to go in to lodge in Gabaa; and they went in, and sat down in the street of the city, and there was no one who conducted them into a house to lodge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:8 - And all the people rose up as one man, saying, No one of us shall return to his tent, and no one of us shall return to his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon; and the children of Israel [fn]picked off of them five thousand men; and the children of Israel went down after them as far as Gedan, and they smote of them two thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon, even six hundred men; and they sojourned four months in the rock of Remmon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:1 - And Booz went up to the gate, and sat there; and behold, the relative passed by, of whom Booz spoke: and Booz said to him, Turn aside, sit down here, such a one: and he turned aside and sat down.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:3 - And his sons did not walk in his way; and they turned aside after gain, and took gifts, and perverted judgments.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: ye have indeed wrought all this iniquity; only turn not from following the Lord, and serve the Lord with all your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - And his armour-bearer said to him, Do all that thine heart inclines toward: behold, I am with thee, my heart is as thy heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - And Saul said to the Kinite, Go, and depart out of the midst of the Amalekites, lest I put thee with them; for thou dealedst mercifully with the children of Israel when they went up out of Egypt. So the Kinite departed from the midst of Amalec.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:53 - And the men of Israel returned [fn]from pursuing after the Philistines, and they [fn]destroyed their camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - And one of the servants reported to Abigaia the wife of Nabal, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our lord; but he turned away from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:19 - And Asael followed after Abenner, and turned not to go to the right hand or to the left from following Abenner.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - And Abenner said to him, Turn thou to the right hand or to the left, and lay hold for thyself on one of the young men, and take to thyself his armour: but Asael would not turn back from following him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - And he brought back Abenner to Chebron, and Joab caused him to turn aside from the gate to speak to him, laying wait for him: and he smote him there in the loins, and he died for the blood of Asael the brother of Joab.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:10 - And David would not bring in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to himself into the city of David: and David turned it aside into the house of Abeddara the Gethite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:2 - of the nations concerning whom the Lord forbade the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall not go in to them, and they shall not come in to you, lest they turn away your hearts after their idols: Solomon clave to these in love.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4 - And it came to pass in the time of the old age of Solomon, that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. And the strange women turned away his heart after their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:9 - And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because he turned away his heart from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared twice to him,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 - Forasmuch as David did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he turned not from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - And he walked in all the way of Asa his father: he turned not from it, even from doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord. (LXX 22:44) Only he took not away any of the high places: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

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