Davaq דָּבַק

Davaq (Hebrew דָּבַק, Strong's H1692) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to cleave”. It occurs 54 times in 52 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Davaq, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• 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.For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
• Genesis 19:19
  Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
• Genesis 31:23
  And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
• Genesis 34:3
  And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.

Numbers

• Numbers 36:7
  So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
• Numbers 36:9
  Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 10:20
  Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
• Deuteronomy 11:22
  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;For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
• Deuteronomy 13:4
  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.You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.
• Deuteronomy 13:17
  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;Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,
• Deuteronomy 28:21
  The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
• Deuteronomy 28:60
  Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
• Deuteronomy 30:20
  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.and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Joshua

• Joshua 22:5
  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 be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
• Joshua 23:8
  But cleave unto the Lord your God, as ye have done unto this day.Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
• Joshua 23:12
  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:For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,

Judges

• Judges 18:22
  And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.After they were some distance from Micah’s house, the men in the houses near Micah’s house mobilized and overtook the Danites.
• Judges 20:42
  Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
• Judges 20:45
  And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.

Ruth

• Ruth 1:14
  And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
• Ruth 2:8
  Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.
• Ruth 2:21
  And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”
• Ruth 2:23
  So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 14:22
  Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.When all the Israelites who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they also joined Saul and Jonathan in the battle.
• 1 Samuel 31:2
  And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi–shua, Saul’s sons.The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 1:6
  And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.“I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.
• 2 Samuel 20:2
  So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
• 2 Samuel 23:10
  He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the Lord wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 11:2
  Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 3:3
  Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.Nevertheless, he clung to the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
• 2 Kings 5:27
  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.Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.
• 2 Kings 18:6
  For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 10:2
  And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi–shua, the sons of Saul.The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

Job

• Job 19:20
  My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
• Job 29:10
  The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.
• Job 31:7
  If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
• Job 38:38
  When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
• Job 41:17
  They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
• Job 41:23
  The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

Psalms

• Psalm 22:15
  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
• Psalm 44:25
  For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
• Psalm 63:8
  My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
• Psalm 101:3
  I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
• Psalm 102:5
  By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
• Psalm 119:25
  My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
• Psalm 119:31
  I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.I cling to Your testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame.
• Psalm 137:6
  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.May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 13:11
  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.For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
• Jeremiah 42:16
  Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.

Lamentations

• Lamentations 4:4
  The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 3:26
  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.I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.
• Ezekiel 29:4
  But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).