Greek verb · G1578
ἐκκλίνω
ekklinoek-klee'-no
to turn from
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ekklínō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1578is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1578
to deviate, i.e. (absolutely) to shun (literally or figuratively), or (relatively) to decline (from piety)
The King James renders it: avoid, eschew, go out of the way.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ekklino is rendered "to turn from". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 3:12All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
Romans 3:12ἐξέκλιναν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- do turn away1
- he should turn away1
- turned away1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐκκλινάτω1
- ἐκκλίνετε1
- ἐξέκλιναν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, command · 3rd person singular1V-AAM-3S
- verb · present active, command · 2nd person plural1V-PAM-2P
Romans
two uses
All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
- ἐξέκλινανexeklinanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: turned away
Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.
- ἐκκλίνετεekklineteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do turn away
1 Peter
one use
He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.
- ἐκκλινάτωekklinatoverb · aorist active, command · 3rd person singulartagged: he should turn away
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.