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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Cleave
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Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
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Genesis
11 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Deuteronomy
88 verses
Joshua
33 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
44 verses
Isaiah
11 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Ezekiel
11 verses
Daniel
22 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Zechariah
11 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Mark
11 verses
Acts
11 verses
Romans
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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דָּבַק
dâbaq · daw-bak'
17 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 2:24Strong's last: Ezekiel 3:26
Open full H1692 profile →בָּקַע
bâqaʻ · baw-kah'
3 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences
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 →προσκολλάω
proskolláō · pros-kol-lah'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to glue to, i.e. (figuratively) to adhere
Strong's KJV usage: :--cleave, join (self).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 19:5Strong's last: Mark 10:7
Open full G4347 profile →κολλάω
kolláō · kol-lah'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
to glue, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to stick (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--cleave, join (self), keep company.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 12:9Strong's last: Romans 12:9
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prosménō · pros-men'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 11:23Strong's last: Acts 11:23
Open full G4357 profile →דְּבַק
dᵉbaq · deb-ak'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to stick to
Strong's KJV usage: cleave.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:43Strong's last: Daniel 2:43
Open full H1693 profile →דָּבֵק
dâbêq · daw-bake'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
adhering
Strong's KJV usage: cleave, joining, stick closer.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 4:4Strong's last: Deuteronomy 4:4
Open full H1695 profile →לָוָה
lâvâh · law-vaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 11:34Strong's last: Daniel 11:34
Open full H3867 profile →סָפַח
çâphach · saw-fakh'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 14:1Strong's last: Isaiah 14:1
Open full H5596 profile →שָׁסַע
shâçaʻ · shaw-sah'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to split or tear; figuratively, to upbraid
Strong's KJV usage: cleave, (be) cloven (footed), rend, stay.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 1:17Strong's last: Leviticus 1:17
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H1695
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
H1692
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
H1692
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;
H1692
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.
H1692
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;
H1692
The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
H1692
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
H1692
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.
English meaning and historical usage.
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cleave
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.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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