Cleaving
דָּבֵקStrong’s H1695daveq (da-veq)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Daveq is the Hebrew word usually translated “who were clinging”, “clinging” and “cleaving”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.”
Meaning
- Clinging, adhering to
How it's translated
- who were clinging 1
- clinging 1
- cleaving 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Proverbs 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 3:12And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
- Proverbs 18:24A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּבֵק daveq · cleaving
clinging, adhering to
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cleaving” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLEAVING, participle present
tense Sticking; adhering; uniting to. Also, splitting; dividing; riving.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.