κλίνω
to recline
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
3 verses where G2827 appears in the Present tense in the Book of Luke. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
- Luke 9:12 κλίνειν pres act inf The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place."
- Luke 9:58 κλίνῃ pres act subj 3sg Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
- Luke 24:5 κλινουσῶν pres act ptcp gen pl fem Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb κλινω centers on the idea of “to recline.” Luke dominates its distribution — 4 of 7 verses. The Greek New Testament uses it across 7 verses — uncommon. First canonically at Matthew 8:20, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2827 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 86%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 57%
- Johannine 1 verse · 14%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Lay 2×
- American Standard Version: Lay 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lay 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He might lay 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2827 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2827 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2827 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2827 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- transitively
- intransitively
Word origin
Origin: a root word
A primary verb; to slant or slope that is incline or recline (literally or figuratively): - bow (down) be far spent lay turn to flight wear away.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2827 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κλίνῃ klínē | Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 8:20 | 2 |
| κέκλικεν kékliken | Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 24:29 | 1 |
| κλίνας klínas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 19:30 | 1 |
| κλίνειν klínein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Luke 9:12 | 1 |
| κλινουσῶν klinousō̂n | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Luke 24:5 | 1 |
| ἔκλιναν éklinan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Hebrews 11:34 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2827, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κλινω appears 46 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 44 verses in 12 books.
- 46
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 44
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 7:6 κλίνω
- 1 Samuel 4:2 κλίνω
- 2 Samuel 19:15 κλίνω
- 1 Kings 2:28 κλίνω
- 2 Kings 19:16 κλίνω
- Ezra 7:28 κλίνω
- Job 38:37 κλίνω
- Psalms 16:6 κλίνω
- Proverbs 21:1 κλίνω
- Isaiah 24:20 κλίνω
- Jeremiah 6:4 κλίνω
- Zechariah 14:4 κλίνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2827) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 7:6 κλίνω The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
- Judges 9:3 κλίνω His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
- Judges 19:8 κλίνω He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady's father said, Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines; and they ate, both of them.
- 1 Samuel 4:2 κλίνω The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.
- 1 Samuel 14:32 κλίνω and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
- 2 Samuel 19:15 κλίνω So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
- 2 Samuel 22:10 κλίνω He bowed the heavens also, and came down; Thick darkness was under his feet.
- 1 Kings 2:28 κλίνω The news came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
- 2 Kings 19:16 κλίνω Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent him to defy the living God.
- 2 Kings 20:10 κλίνω Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.
- Ezra 7:28 κλίνω and has extended loving kindness to me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God on me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
- Ezra 9:5 κλίνω At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
- Ezra 9:9 κλίνω For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
- Job 38:37 κλίνω Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
- Psalms 16:6 κλίνω The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.
- Psalms 17:10 κλίνω They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
- Psalms 20:12 κλίνω
- Psalms 30:3 κλίνω Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- Psalms 44:11 κλίνω You have made us like sheep for food, And have scattered us among the nations.
- Psalms 45:7 κλίνω You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
- Psalms 48:5 κλίνω They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed, They hurried away.
- Psalms 61:4 κλίνω I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah.
- Psalms 70:2 κλίνω Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
- Psalms 74:9 κλίνω We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, Neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
- Psalms 77:1 κλίνω My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, And for him to listen to me.
- Psalms 85:1 κλίνω Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
- Psalms 87:3 κλίνω Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
- Psalms 101:3 κλίνω I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
- Psalms 101:12 κλίνω
- Psalms 103:5 κλίνω Who satisfies your desire with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
- Psalms 114:2 κλίνω Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
- Psalms 118:36 κλίνω
- Psalms 118:112 κλίνω
- Psalms 143:5 κλίνω I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.
- Proverbs 21:1 κλίνω The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
- Isaiah 24:20 κλίνω The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
- Isaiah 33:23 κλίνω Your rigging is untied; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.
- Jeremiah 6:4 κλίνω Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
- Jeremiah 17:22 κλίνω neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
- Jeremiah 31:12 κλίνω They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
- Jeremiah 41:14 κλίνω So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.
- Jeremiah 42:15 κλίνω now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
- Jeremiah 51:5 κλίνω For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
- Zechariah 14:4 κλίνω His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2827) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
