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Strong's #1578 - ἐκκλίνω
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- to turn aside, deviate (from the right way and course)
- to turn (one's self) away, to turn away from, keep aloof from one's society
- to shun one
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ἐκ-κλίνω [ῑ],
I
1. end out of the regular line, bend outwards or away, opp. ἐγκλίνω, Hp. Art. 38 (s.v.l.); change the form of a word, Pl. Cra. 404d.
2. dislocate, Hp. Art. 7 (Pass.).
3. embezzle, Dionys.Com. 3.10.
4. pervert, δικαιώματα LXX 1 Samuel 8:3.
II
1. intr., turn away, ἀπό τινος Th. 5.73, LXX Numbers 22:32(33); ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ ib. 23; ἐκ νόμου θεοῦ ib. Job 34:27 : abs., give ground, retire, X. Cyr. 1.4.23; give way, fall from its place, Id. Cyn. 6.10.
2. c. acc., avoid, shun, ἐ. τι καὶ μὴ πράττειν Pl. Lg. 746c; ἐπερχόμενον ἐ. νέφος Demad. 15; τὴν τῶν θηρίων ἔφοδον Plb. 1.34.4; στρατείαν Id. 5.42.4,etc.: — Pass., Epict. Ench. 2.
3. with Pr, turn away or aside towards, κατά τι X. Cyr. 7.1.30; ἐπὶ τὰς ἔξω οἰκίας BGU 1215.9 (iii B.C.); ἐ. εἰς δῆμον, εἰς ὀλιγαρχίαν, decline into a democracy or oligarchy, Arist. Pol. 1273a5; πρός τινα visit a person on one's journey, LXX Genesis 19:3.
ἐκκλίνω (Romans 16:17 T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἐξέκλινα; in Greek writings from Thucydides down; the 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
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ίκ -κλίνω ,
[in LXX for H5186, H5493, etc.;]
intrans., to turn aside, turn away: metaph., from the right path, absol., Romans 3:12 (LXX); from evil, absol., 1 Peter 3:11; seq. ἀπό , c. gen. pers., Romans 16:17.†
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In a decree of Ptolemy Philometor (B.C. 181–145) published in Archiv vi. p. 9 we find.12 οὔτε κίνδυνον οὔτε κακοπαθίαν οὐδεμίαν ἐκκέκ [λ ]ικεν : cf. OGIS 339.5 (c. B.C. 120), 443.14 (i/B.C.), and Cagnat IV. 134.14 (ii/B.C.). The verb is taken as = ";faire défaut"; by the editor (see Index p. 476) in P Par 15.22 (B.C. 120), συνιστοροῦντες ἑαυτοῖς οὐδὲν βέβαιον ἔχουσι ἐξέκλιναν. Similarly P Tor I. 2.33, and cf. ib. 1ii. 17 (B.C. 117) καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα πολλάκις ἐπιβεβληκότος εἰς τὴν Διόσπολιν, ἐκκλίνοντες οὐ διαλείπουσιν, ";semper occursum meum devitant"; (Ed.).
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