Strong's #1692: dabaq (pronounced daw-bak')
a primitive root; properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit:--abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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dâbaq
1) to cling, stick, stay close, cleave, keep close, stick to, stick with, follow closely, join to, overtake, catch
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to cling, cleave to
1a2) to stay with
1b) (Pual) to be joined together
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to cause to cleave to
1c2) to pursue closely
1c3) to overtake
1d) (Hophal) to be made to cleave
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 54 times:
Genesis 2:24: "leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one"
Genesis 19:19: "escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:"
Genesis 31:23: "days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead."
Genesis 34:3: "And his soul cleaved unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel,"
Numbers 36:7: "for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers."
Numbers 36:9: "every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance."
Deuteronomy 10:20: "the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, by his name."
Deuteronomy 11:22: "your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave"
Deuteronomy 13:4: "and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave"
Deuteronomy 13:17: " And there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing to thine hand: that"
Deuteronomy 28:21: "The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed"
Deuteronomy 28:60: "which of; and they shall cleave"
Deuteronomy 30:20: "thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length"
Joshua 22:5: "his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all"
Joshua 23:8: "But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done"
Joshua 23:12: "Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these"
Judges 18:22: "near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan."
Judges 20:42: "the way but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed"
Judges 20:45: "five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew"
Ruth 1:14: "kissed but Ruth cleaved"
Ruth 2:8: "neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:"
Ruth 2:21: "He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until"
Ruth 2:23: " So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end harvest"
1 Samuel 14:22: "fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle."
1 Samuel 31:2: "And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines"
2 Samuel 1:6: "and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard"
2 Samuel 20:2: "the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah cleaved unto their king, from Jordan"
2 Samuel 23:10: "until his hand and his hand cleaved unto the sword: and the LORD"
1 Kings 11:2: "after their gods: Solomon cleaved unto these in love."
2 Kings 3:3: "Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, made"
2 Kings 5:27: "The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed forever. And he went out"
2 Kings 18:6: " For he cleaved to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept"
1 Chronicles 10:2: "And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; slew"
Job 19:20: "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin"
Job 29:10: "held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth."
Job 31:7: "after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;"
Job 38:38: "groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?"
Job 41:17: " They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered."
Job 41:23: "The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot"
Psalms 22:15: "is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; me into the dust of death."
Psalms 44:25: "is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth"
Psalms 63:8: "My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth"
Psalms 101:3: "the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave"
Psalms 102:5: "By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin."
Psalms 119:25: "My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word."
Psalms 119:31: " I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame."
Psalms 137:6: "I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; I prefer not"
Jeremiah 13:11: "For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins so"
Jeremiah 13:11: "the loins so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house"
Jeremiah 42:16: "and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there"
