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Strong's G2827 κλίνω (klino)

Klino means “be far spent” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2827 — chashal (“subdue”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2827
Language Greek
Linked Usages 60
Books 20

Strong's G2827 Quick Answer

Strong's G2827 κλίνω (klino) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. klino (klee'-no) v. 1. to slant or slope, i.e. incline or decline {literally or figuratively} It has 60 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include lay, bowed, and far. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
klino (klee'-no) v. 1. to slant or slope, i.e. incline or decline {literally or figuratively}
Usage
60 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
lay, bowed, and far

Meaning and Definition

klino (klee'-no) v. 1. to slant or slope, i.e. incline or decline {literally or figuratively} [a primary verb] KJV: bow (down), be far spent, lay, turn to flight, wear away

Original Word
κλίνω
Transliteration
klino
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2827. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to bow/lay down

Usage: κλίνω [in LXX chiefly for נָטָה ;] __1. to make to bend, to bow: τ. κεφαλήν (of one dying), Jhn.19:30; τ. πρόσωτον (of terrified persons), Luk.24:5. __2. to make to lean, to rest: τ. κεφαλήν (in sleep), Mat.8:20, Luk.9:58. __3. As in Hom., of soldiers, to turn (to flight), παρεμβολάς, Heb.11:34. __4. In late Gk. (as mid, in cl.), to decline: intrans., ἡ ἡμέρα, Luk.9:12 24:29.† (AS)

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How Strong's G2827 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render klino, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

bowed Luke 24:5 lay Matthew 8:20 far Luke 24:29

How Strong's G2827 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 45 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2827 (κλίνω) appears 55 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2827 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2827 in the New Testament

7 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 8:20 KJV

And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Luke 9:12 KJV

And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.

Luke 9:58 KJV

And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Strong's G2827 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

45 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Judges 7:6 Septuagint / Brenton

And the number of those that lapped with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; and all the rest of the people bowed upon their knees to drink water.

Judges 9:3 Septuagint / Brenton

And his mother’s brethren spoke concerning him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words; and their heart turned after Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother.

Judges 19:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And he rose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the father of the damsel said, Strengthen now thy heart, and quit thyself as a soldier till the day decline; and the two ate.

Strong's G2827 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Wisdom of Sirach 4:8 Septuagint / Brenton

Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor, And give him a friendly answer with meekness.

Wisdom of Sirach 6:33 Septuagint / Brenton

If thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding: And if thou bow thine ear, thou shalt be wise.

Wisdom of Sirach 15:4 Septuagint / Brenton

He shall be stayed upon her, and shall not be moved; And shall rely upon her, and shall not be confounded.

Usage Excerpts

First 60 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2827.

Judges 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the number of those that lapped with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; and all the rest of the people bowed upon their knees to drink water.
Judges 9:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And his mother’s brethren spoke concerning him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words; and their heart turned after Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother.
Judges 19:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he rose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the father of the damsel said, Strengthen now thy heart, and quit thyself as a soldier till the day decline; and the two ate.
1 Kingdoms 4:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Philistines prepare to fight with Israel, and the battle was turned against them; and the men of Israel fell before the Philistines, and there were smitten in the battle in the field four thousand men.
1 Kingdoms 14:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people turned to the spoil; and the people took flocks, and herds, and calves, and slew them on the ground, and the people ate with the blood.
2 Kingdoms 19:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah as that of one man; and they sent to the king, saying, Return thou, and all thy servants.
2 Kingdoms 22:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he bowed the heavens, and came down, And there was darkness under his feet.
3 Kingdoms 2:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the report came to Joab son of Zeruiah; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, and he went not after Solomon: and Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
4 Kingdoms 19:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
4 Kingdoms 20:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hezekiah said, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return ten degrees backward on the dial.
Ezra 7:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Ezra 9:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
Ezra 9:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto 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 desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Job 38:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, And has bowed the heaven down to the earth?
Psalms 16:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have cried, for thou heardest me, O God: Incline thine ear to me, and hearken to my words.
Psalms 17:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he bowed the heaven, and came down: And thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 20:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For they intended evils against thee; They imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform.
Psalms 30:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Incline thine ear to me; Make haste to rescue me: Be thou to me for a protecting God, And for a house of refuge to save me.
Psalms 44:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; Forget also thy people, and thy father’s house.
Psalms 45:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered: He uttered his voice, the earth shook.
Psalms 48:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my riddle on the harp.
Psalms 61:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How long will ye assault a man? Ye are all slaughtering As with a bowed wall and a broken hedge.
Psalms 70:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me: Incline thine ear to me, and save me.
Psalms 74:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, Full of unmingled wine; And he has turned it from side to side, But its dregs have not been wholly poured out; All the sinners of the earth shall drink them.
Psalms 77:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm of instruction for Asaph. Give heed, O my people, to my law: Incline your ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 85:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Prayer of David. O Lord, incline thine ear, and hearken to me; For I am poor and needy.
Psalms 87:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let my prayer come in before thee; Incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.
Psalms 101:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Turn not away thy face from me: In the day when I am afflicted, incline thine ear to me: In the day when I shall call upon thee, speedily hear me.
Psalms 101:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My days have declined like a shadow; And I am withered like grass.
Psalms 103:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation: It shall not be moved forever.
Psalms 114:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because he has inclined his ear to me, Therefore will I call upon him while I live.
Psalms 118:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Incline my heart to thy testimonies, And not to covetousness.
Psalms 118:112 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have inclined my heart to perform thine ordinances forever, In return for thy mercies.
Psalms 143:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Proverbs 21:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As a rush of water, so is the king’s heart in God’s hand: He turns it whithersoever he may desire to point out.
Isaiah 24:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.
Isaiah 33:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy cords are broken, for they had no strength: thy mast has given way, it shall not spread the sails, it shall not bear a signal, until it be given up for plunder; therefore shall many lame men take spoil.
Jeremiah 6:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.
Jeremiah 17:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and carry forth no burdens out of your houses on the Sabbath day, and ye shall do no work: sanctify the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
Jeremiah 31:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, behold, his days come, saith the Lord, when I shall send upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray, and they shall utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut his horns asunder.
Jeremiah 41:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When six years are accomplished, thou shalt set free thy brother the Hebrew, who shall be sold to thee: for he shall serve thee six years, and then thou shalt let him go free: but they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear.
Jeremiah 42:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I sent to you my servants the prophets, saying, Turn ye every one from his evil way, and amend your practices, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell upon the land which I gave to you and to your fathers: but ye inclined not your ears, and hearkened not.
Jeremiah 51:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods.
Daniel 9:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolation, and that of thy city on which thy name is called: for we do not bring our pitiful case before thee on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of thy manifold compassions, O Lord.
Zechariah 14:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it toward the east and the west, a very great division; and half the mountain shall lean to the north, and half of it to the south.
Matthew 8:20 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Luke 9:12 New Testament, KJV
And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
Luke 9:58 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Luke 24:5 New Testament, KJV
And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
Luke 24:29 New Testament, KJV
But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
John 19:30 New Testament, KJV
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Hebrews 11:34 New Testament, KJV
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Wisdom of Sirach 4:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor, And give him a friendly answer with meekness.
Wisdom of Sirach 6:33 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
If thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding: And if thou bow thine ear, thou shalt be wise.
Wisdom of Sirach 15:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall be stayed upon her, and shall not be moved; And shall rely upon her, and shall not be confounded.
Wisdom of Sirach 38:28 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The smith also sitting by the anvil, And considering the iron work, The vapor of the fire wasteth his flesh, And he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: The noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, And his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; He setteth his mind to finish his work, And watcheth to polish it perfectly:
Wisdom of Sirach 51:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
I bowed down mine ear a little, and received her, And got much learning.
Baruch 2:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord, look down from thy holy house, and consider us: bow down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us.
Baruch 2:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet, whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2827, grouped by book.

Judges 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 20 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 4 usages, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
Wisdom of Sirach 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2827 FAQ

What does klino (κλίνω) mean?

Klino (Strong's G2827) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be far spent". klino (klee'-no) v. 1. to slant or slope, i.e. incline or decline {literally or figuratively}

How many times is klino (κλίνω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 60 linked usages for Strong's G2827 across 20 books.

Where can I study klino (κλίνω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2827 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate klino (κλίνω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lay, bowed, and far. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2827 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 45 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2827, with linked reader references where each row is available.