Decline

de-klin' [(@cur], or sur, naTah): In the King James Version this word occurs 9 times in its original sense (now obsolete) of "turn aside." the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "turn aside" in Exod 23:2; Deut 17:11; 2 Chr 34:2; Job 23:11. In Ps 102:11; Ps 109:23, the lengthening shadows of afternoon are said to "decline," and the Revised Version (British and American) introduces the word in the same general sense in Judg 19:8; 2 Kgs 20:10; Jer 6:4. See Afternoon.