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:
Lamentations 4:4: "The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: ask"
Ezekiel 3:26: "And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not to them a reprover:"
Ezekiel 29:4: "in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick and I will bring thee up out of the midst"
Ezekiel 29:4: "of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales."
