κλίνω,
[in LXX chiefly for נטה;]
1. to make to bend, to bow: τ. κεφαλήν (of one dying), Jo 19:30; τ. πρόσωτον (of terrified persons), Lk 24:5.
2. to make to lean, to rest: τ. κεφαλήν (in sleep), Mt 8:20, Lk 9:58.
3. As in Hom., of soldiers, to turn (to flight), παρεμβολάς, He 11:34.
4. In late Gk. (as mid. in cl.), to decline: intrans., ἡ ἡμέρα, Lk 9:1224:29.†