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To cleave

דְּבֵקStrong’s H1693

devaq (de-vaq)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Devaq is the Aramaic word usually translated “clinging”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“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.”
Daniel 2:43 KJV
Meaning
  1. (P'al) to cling
How it's translated
  • clinging 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    דְּבֵק devaq · to cleave

    (P'al) to cling Aramaic of da.vaq (דָּבַק "to cleave" H1692)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “cleave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    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. Math. 19” Genesis 2:24
    All definitions and other forms of “cleave”

      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.
      2. To part or open naturally.“Every beast that cleaveth the cleft into two claws” Deuteronomy 14:6

      CLEAVE, verb intransitive

      To part; to open; to crack; to separate, as parts of cohering bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.

      1. “The mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof” Zechariah 14:4

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.