Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
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Decline
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Proverbs 7:25
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
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2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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נָטָה
nâṭâh · naw-taw'
3 times translated as this KJV form214 total Strong's occurrences
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
Strong's KJV usage: afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
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Strong's first: Exodus 23:2Strong's last: Proverbs 4:5
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çûwr · soor
1 times translated as this KJV form308 total Strong's occurrences
to turn off (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), × grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, × be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
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Strong's first: Deuteronomy 17:11Strong's last: Deuteronomy 17:11
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sâṭâh · saw-taw'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to deviate from duty
Strong's KJV usage: decline, go aside, turn.
Strong's first: Proverbs 7:25Strong's last: Proverbs 7:25
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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
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decline
DECLI'NE, verb intransitive [Latin to lean.]
1. To lean downward; as, the head declines towards the earth.
2. To lean from a right line; to deviate; in a literal sense.
3. To lean or deviate from rectitude, in a moral sense; to leave the path of truth or justice, or the course prescribed.
Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. Psalms 119:157.
4. To fall; to tend or draw towards the close; as, the day declines.
5. To avoid or shun; to refuse; not to comply; not to do; as, he declined to take any part in the concern.
6. To fall; to fail; to sink; to decay; to be impaired; to tend to a less perfect state; as, the vigor of youth declines in age; health declines; virtue declines; religion declines; national credit and prosperity decline under a corrupt administration.
7. To sink; to diminish; to fall in value; as, the prices of land and goods decline at the close of a war.
DECLI'NE, verb transitive
1. To bend downward; to bring down.
In melancholy deep, with head declined.
2. To bend to one side; to move from a fixed point or right line.
3. To shun or avoid; to refuse; not to engage in; to be cautious not to do or interfere; not to accept or comply with; as, he declined the contest; he declined the offer; he declined the business or pursuit.
4. To inflect; to change the termination of a word, for forming the oblique cases; as, Dominus, Domini, Domino, Dominum, Domine.
DECLI'NE, noun Literally, a leaning from; hence, a falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; as the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion; the decline of revenues; the decline of agriculture, commerce or manufactures; the decline of learning.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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