Usually translated as
cleave, pursue hard, abide fast, keep, stick, follow close, be joined, take, overtake
Occurrences
Dâbaq occurs 49 times in 47 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (3), Numbers (2), Deuteronomy (7), Joshua (3), Judges (3), Ruth (3), 1 Samuel (2), 2 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (3), 1 Chronicles (1), Job (6), Psalms (8), Jeremiah (2), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (2)
- Genesis 2:24 — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave (וְדָבַ֣ק) unto his wife: and they shall be 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 (תִּדְבָּקַ֥נִי) me, and I die:
- Genesis 31:23 — And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook (וַיַּדְבֵּ֥ק) him in the mount Gilead.
- 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 (יִדְבְּק֖וּ) himself to 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 (יִדְבְּק֕וּ) himself to his own inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 10:20 — Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave (תִדְבָּ֔ק), and swear by 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 (וּלְדָבְקָה) unto 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 (תִדְבָּקֽוּן) unto him.
- Deuteronomy 13:17 — And there shall cleave (יִדְבַּ֧ק) 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;
- Deuteronomy 28:21 — The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave (יַדְבֵּ֧ק) unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 28:60 — Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave (וְדָבְק֖וּ) unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 30:20 — That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave (וּלְדָבְקָה) 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.
- 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 (וּלְדָבְקָה) unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Joshua 23:8 — But cleave (תִּדְבָּ֑קוּ) unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
- Joshua 23:12 — Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave (וּדְבַקְתֶּם֙) 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:
- 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 (וַיַּדְבִּ֖יקוּ) the children of Dan.
- Judges 20:42 — Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook (הִדְבִּיקָ֑תְהוּ) them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
- 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 (וַיַּדְבִּ֤יקוּ) after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
- 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 (תִדְבָּקִ֖ין) here fast by my maidens:
- Ruth 2:21 — And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast (תִּדְבָּקִ֔ין) by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
- Ruth 2:23 — So she kept fast (וַתִּדְבַּ֞ק) by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
- 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 (וַֽיַּדְבְּק֥וּ) after them in the battle.
- 1 Samuel 31:2 — And the Philistines followed hard upon (וַיַּדְבְּק֣וּ) Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul’s sons.
- 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 (הִדְבִּקֻֽהוּ) after him.
- 2 Kings 3:3 — Nevertheless he cleaved (דָּבֵ֑ק) unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
- 2 Kings 5:27 — The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave (תִּֽדְבַּק) unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
- 2 Kings 18:6 — For (וַיִּדְבַּק֙) he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
- 1 Chronicles 10:2 — And the Philistines followed hard (וַיַּדְבְּק֣וּ) after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
- Job 19:20 — My bone cleaveth (דָּבְקָ֣ה) to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- Job 29:10 — The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved (דָּבֵֽקָה) to the roof of their mouth.
- 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 (דָּ֣בַק) to mine hands;
- Job 38:38 — When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together (יְדֻבָּֽקוּ)?
- Job 41:17 — They are joined (יְדֻבָּ֑קוּ) one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
- Job 41:23 — The flakes of his flesh are joined together (דָבֵ֑קוּ): they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
- Psalms 22:15 — My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth (מֻדְבָּ֣ק) to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
- Psalms 44:25 — For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth (דָּבְקָ֖ה) unto the earth.
- Psalms 63:8 — My soul followeth hard (דָּבְקָ֣ה) after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
- Psalms 101:3 — I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave (יִדְבַּ֣ק) to me.
- Psalms 102:5 — By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave (דָּבְקָ֥ה) to my skin.
- Psalms 119:25 — My soul cleaveth (דָּֽבְקָ֣ה) unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
- Psalms 119:31 — I have stuck (דָּבַ֥קְתִּי) unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
- Psalms 137:6 — If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave (תִּדְבַּ֥ק) to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
- Jeremiah 13:11 — For as the girdle cleaveth (יִדְבַּ֨ק) 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.
- Jeremiah 13:11 — For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave (הִדְבַּ֣קְתִּי) 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.
- 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 (יִדְבַּ֧ק) after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
- Lamentations 4:4 — The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth (דָּבַ֨ק) to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
- Ezekiel 3:26 — And I will make thy tongue cleave (אַדְבִּ֣יק) 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.
- Ezekiel 29:4 — But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick (וְהִדְבַּקְתִּ֥י) 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.
- 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 (תִּדְבָּֽק) unto thy scales.