Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Read in context →Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
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dâbaq · daw-bak'
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
Strong's KJV usage: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.
Strong's first: Genesis 2:24Strong's last: Ezekiel 3:26
Open full H1692 profile →bâqaʻ · baw-kah'
to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open
Strong's KJV usage: make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win.
Strong's first: Psalms 74:15Strong's last: Zechariah 14:4
Open full H1234 profile →proskolláō · pros-kol-lah'-o
to glue to, i.e. (figuratively) to adhere
Strong's KJV usage: :--cleave, join (self).
Strong's first: Matthew 19:5Strong's last: Mark 10:7
Open full G4347 profile →kolláō · kol-lah'-o
to glue, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to stick (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--cleave, join (self), keep company.
Strong's first: Romans 12:9Strong's last: Romans 12:9
Open full G2853 profile →prosménō · pros-men'-o
to stay further, i.e. remain in a place, with a person; figuratively, to adhere to, persevere in
Strong's KJV usage: :--abide still, be with, cleave unto, continue in (with).
Strong's first: Acts 11:23Strong's last: Acts 11:23
Open full G4357 profile →dᵉbaq · deb-ak'
to stick to
Strong's KJV usage: cleave.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:43Strong's last: Daniel 2:43
Open full H1693 profile →dâbêq · daw-bake'
adhering
Strong's KJV usage: cleave, joining, stick closer.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 4:4Strong's last: Deuteronomy 4:4
Open full H1695 profile →lâvâh · law-vaw'
properly, to twine, i.e. (by implication) to unite, to remain; also to borrow (as a form of obligation) or (caus.) to lend
Strong's KJV usage: abide with, borrow(-er), cleave, join (self), lend(-er).
Strong's first: Daniel 11:34Strong's last: Daniel 11:34
Open full H3867 profile →çâphach · saw-fakh'
properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association)
Strong's KJV usage: abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.
Strong's first: Isaiah 14:1Strong's last: Isaiah 14:1
Open full H5596 profile →shâçaʻ · shaw-sah'
to split or tear; figuratively, to upbraid
Strong's KJV usage: cleave, (be) cloven (footed), rend, stay.
Strong's first: Leviticus 1:17Strong's last: Leviticus 1:17
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
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CLEAVE, verb intransitive
1. To stick; to adhere; to hold to.
My bones cleave to my skin. Psalms 102:5.
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. Psalms 137:6.
CLEAVE to that which is good. Romans 12:9.
2. To unite aptly; to fit; to sit well on.
3. To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.
A man shall leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife. Genesis 2:24. Math. 19.
CLEAVE to Jehovah your God. Joshua 23:8.
CLEAVE, verb transitive
1. To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to open or serve the cohering parts of a body, by cutting or by the application of force; as, to cleave wood; to cleave a rock; to cleave the flood. Psa 74.
2. To part or open naturally.
Every beast that cleaveth the cleft into two claws. Deuteronomy 14:1.
CLEAVE, verb intransitive To part; to open; to crack; to separate, as parts of cohering bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
The mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof. Zechariah 14:4.
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