KJV dictionary & concordance
To turn, bend, or depart aside from a way, word, judgment, duty, or course; to refuse or fall away from following it.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 23:2
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to doe euill: neither shalt thou speake in a cause, to decline after many, to wrest iudgement:
1611 marginal noteHeb. answere.
According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
According to the sentence of the Law which they shall teach thee, and according to the Iudgement which they shall tell thee thou shalt doe: thou shalt not decline from the Sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
Many are my persecutors, and mine enemies: yet doe I not decline from thy testimonies.
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Get wisedome, get vnderstanding: forget it not, neither decline from the wordes of my mouth.
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Let not thine heart decline to her wayes, goe not astray in her paths.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Fall away, or swerve from.
To turn aside; to depart or swerve from.
