דָּבַק
to cleave
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘cling’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘cause to cling or cleave to’
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 26 distinct
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 7 times (13%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 5 times (9%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 4 times (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 4 times (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 4 times (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 3 times (6%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 3 times (6%)
- Verb, Pual, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 2 times (4%)
+18 more forms (22 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 54 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1692 appears — 52 distinct verses across 16 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 4 verses
- Genesis 2:24 וְ/דָבַ֣ק conj + Qal wpf 3ms Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Genesis 19:19 תִּדְבָּקַ֥/נִי Qal impf 3fs + sfx pers 1cs See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
- Genesis 31:23 וַ/יַּדְבֵּ֥ק conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
- Genesis 34:3 וַ/תִּדְבַּ֣ק conj + Qal wimpf 3fs His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 36:7 יִדְבְּק֖וּ Qal impf 3mp So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
- Numbers 36:9 יִדְבְּק֕וּ Qal impf 3mp So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance.
Deuteronomy 7 verses
- Deuteronomy 10:20 תִדְבָּ֔ק Qal impf 2ms You shall fear Yahweh your God; him shall you serve; and to him shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear.
- Deuteronomy 11:22 וּ/לְ/דָבְקָה conj + prep + Qal inf.cs For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him;
- Deuteronomy 13:4 תִדְבָּקֽוּ/ן Qal impf 2mp + sfx n You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave to him.
- Deuteronomy 13:17 יִדְבַּ֧ק Qal impf 3ms There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 28:21 יַדְבֵּ֧ק Hiphil impf 3ms Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 28:60 וְ/דָבְק֖וּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.
- Deuteronomy 30:20 וּ/לְ/דָבְקָה conj + prep + Qal inf.cs to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Joshua 3 verses
- Joshua 22:5 וּ/לְ/דָבְקָה conj + prep + Qal inf.cs Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Joshua 23:8 תִּדְבָּ֑קוּ Qal impf 2mp but cleave to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.
- Joshua 23:12 וּ/דְבַקְתֶּם֙ conj + Qal wpf 2mp Else if you do at all go back, and cleave to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
Judges 3 verses
- Judges 18:22 וַ/יַּדְבִּ֖יקוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
- Judges 20:42 הִדְבִּיקָ֑תְ/הוּ Hiphil pf 3fs + sfx pers 3ms Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of it.
- Judges 20:45 וַ/יַּדְבִּ֤יקוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.
Ruth 4 verses
- Ruth 1:14 דָּ֥בְקָה Qal pf 3fs They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.
- Ruth 2:8 תִדְבָּקִ֖י/ן Qal impf 2fs + sfx n Then said Boaz to Ruth, Don't you hear, my daughter? Don't go to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.
- Ruth 2:21 תִּדְבָּקִ֔י/ן Qal impf 2fs + sfx n Ruth the Moabitess said, Yes, he said to me, You shall keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
- Ruth 2:23 וַ/תִּדְבַּ֞ק conj + Qal wimpf 3fs So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 14:22 וַֽ/יַּדְבְּק֥וּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
- 1 Samuel 31:2 וַ/יַּדְבְּק֣וּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
2 Samuel 3 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:6 הִדְבִּקֻֽ/הוּ Hiphil pf 3cp + sfx pers 3ms The young man who told him said, As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and, behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.
- 2 Samuel 20:2 דָּבְק֣וּ Qal pf 3cp So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 23:10 וַ/תִּדְבַּ֤ק conj + Qal wimpf 3fs He arose, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take spoil.
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 3:3 דָּבֵ֑ק Qal pf 3ms Nevertheless he cleaved to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it.
- 2 Kings 5:27 תִּֽדְבַּק Qal impf 3fs The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.
- 2 Kings 18:6 וַ/יִּדְבַּק֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 6 verses
- Job 19:20 דָּבְקָ֣ה Qal pf 3fs My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- Job 29:10 דָּבֵֽקָה Qal pf 3fs The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
- Job 31:7 דָּ֣בַק Qal pf 3ms If my step has turned out of the way, If my heart walked after my eyes, If any defilement has stuck to my hands,
- Job 38:38 יְדֻבָּֽקוּ Pual impf 3mp When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods of earth stick together?
- Job 41:17 יְדֻבָּ֑קוּ Pual impf 3mp They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.
- Job 41:23 דָבֵ֑קוּ Qal pf 3cp The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.
Psalms 8 verses
- Psalms 22:15 מֻדְבָּ֣ק Hophal ptcp.pass ms My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
- Psalms 44:25 דָּבְקָ֖ה Qal pf 3fs For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves to the earth.
- Psalms 63:8 דָּבְקָ֣ה Qal pf 3fs My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
- Psalms 101:3 יִדְבַּ֣ק Qal impf 3ms I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
- Psalms 102:5 דָּבְקָ֥ה Qal pf 3fs By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
- Psalms 119:25 דָּֽבְקָ֣ה Qal pf 3fs My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
- Psalms 119:31 דָּבַ֥קְתִּי Qal pf 1cs I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don't let me be disappointed.
- Psalms 137:6 תִּדְבַּ֥ק Qal impf 3fs Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; If I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 13:11 יִדְבַּ֨ק הִדְבַּ֣קְתִּי Qal impf 3ms Hiphil pf 1cs For as the belt cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
- Jeremiah 42:16 יִדְבַּ֧ק Qal impf 3ms then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 3:26 אַדְבִּ֣יק Hiphil impf 1cs and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 29:4 וְ/הִדְבַּקְתִּ֥י תִּדְבָּֽק conj + Hiphil wpf 1cs Qal impf 3fs I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
About this entry
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דבק — transliterated dâbaq — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to cleave.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “cleave” in the King James Version, “cling” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. Spanning 52 verses in 16 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 2:24. As a verb its force shifts by stem, across 4 stems (Qal, Pual, and more). Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1692 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 52
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 52 distinct verses.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #696
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 52 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 8 verses 15%
- Deuteronomy 7 verses 13%
- Job 6 verses 12%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 52 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 20 verses · 38%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 19 verses · 37%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 13 verses · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Cleave 9×, Cleaveth 6×, Clave 5×
- American Standard Version: Cleave 8×, Cleaveth 5×, Shall cleave 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cling 7×, Hold fast 4×, Clings 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cling 9×, Clings 6×, And 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1692 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1692 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1692 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1692 across 62 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 31 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
14 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel) and Hophal (the passive of Hiphil).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 14 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. דָּבַק 1 K 11:2 + 2 times; וְדָבַק consec. Gn 2:24; דָּבֵ֑ק 2 K 3:3; 3 fs. דָּֽבְקָה Ru 1:14 + 5 times; דָּבֵ֑קָה Job 29:10; 1 s. דָּבַקְתִּי ψ 119:31; 3 pl. דָּֽבְקוּ 2 S 20:2; וְדָֽבְקוּ consec. Dt 28:60; דָּבֵ֑קוּ Jb 41:15; וּדְבַקְתֶּם consec. Jos 23:12; Impf. יִדְבַּק Dt 13:18 + 3 times; 3 fs. תִּדְבַּק 2 K 5:27 ψ 137:6; וַתִּדְבַּק Gn 34:3 + 2 times; sf. תִּדְבָּקַנִי Gn 19:19; 2 ms. תִּדְבָּ֑ק Dt 10:20 Ez 29:4 (del. B Co); 2 fs. תִּדְבָּקִין Ru 2:8, 21; 3 pl. יִדְבְּקוּ Nu 36:7, 9; 2 mpl. תִּדְבָּ֑קוּ Jos 23:8; תִּדְבָּקוּ֑ן Dt 13:5; Inf. cstr. וּלְדָבְקָה־בּוֹ Dt 11:22 + 2 times;—in Hexateuch only JD, except Nu 36:7, 9 (P);— e.g. 1 Kings 11:2
- 1. cling, cleave to,
- a. lit. sq. בְּ Jb 19:20 (bone to skin), so sq. לְ ψ 102:6; sq. אֶל 2 S 23:10 (hand to sword; accidentally om. with other words 1 Ch 11:13 cf. Dr 2 S 23:11), Je 13:11 (girdle to loins), La 4:4 (tongue to roof of mouth, in thirst), so sq. לְ Jb 29:10 ψ 137:6 (as a judgment); so also in metaph. ψ 44:26 דָּֽבְקָה לָאָרֶץ בִּטְנֵנוּ our belly cleaveth to the earth (‖ שָׁחָה לֶעָכָּר נַפְשֵׁנוּ), 119:25 דָּֽבְקָה לֶעָפָר נַפְשִׁי; fish to scales of crocodile (fig. of Pharaoh), sq. בְּ Ez 29:4 (but cf. supr.); abs. (recipr.) of folds of crocodile’s belly Jb 41:15; further of the חֵרֶם remaining in (sticking to) the hand sq. בְּ Dt 13:18; so of spot, stain Jb 31:7. e.g. Job 19:20
- b. so also of abiding on the land of one’s tribe Nu 36:7, 9 (sq. בְּ). e.g. Numbers 36:7
- c. = remain with, close to sq. עִם Ru 2:8, 21 sq. בְּ v 23. e.g. Ruth 2:8
- a. fig. of loyalty, affection etc., sometimes with idea of physical proximity retained, sq. בְּ Gn 2:24 (J; man to wife) cf. 34:3 (J) 1 K 11:2 Jos 23:12 (D); further Ru 1:14 (Ruth to Naomi); 2 S 20:2 (people to king); especially (sq. בְּ) of cleaving to י׳ Dt 11:22 (‖ אָהֵב, הָלַךְ בְּכָל־דְּרָכָיו) 30:20 (‖ אָהֵב, שָׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ), Jos 22:5 (‖ אָהֵב, הָלַךְ וגו׳, שָׁמַר מִצְוֹתָיו); cf. further Dt 10:20; 13:5; Jos 23:8 (all D), 2 K 18:6; ψ 63:9 (sq. אַחֲרֵי) & ψ 119:31 דָּבַקְתּי בְעֵֽדְוֹתֶ֑יךָ; so e.g. Genesis 2:24
- b. of the opposite בְּחַטֹּאות יָֽרָבְעָם … דָּבֵ֑ק 2 K 3:3; e.g. 2 Kings 3:3
- c. subj. disease, calamity, sq. בְּ pers. Dt 28:60 2 K 5:27; sq. אַחֲרֵי Je 42:16; sq. acc. Gn 19:19 (J); subj. sin ψ 101:3 (sq. בְּ pers.) e.g. Deuteronomy 28:60
Pual
- Impf. 3 mpl. יְדֻבָּ֑קוּ pass. of Hiph. 1. sq. בְּ, of crocodile’s scales, they are joined together Jb 41:9 (‖ יִתְלַכְּדוּ); abs. of earth-clods Jb 38:38. e.g. Job 41:9
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 fs. sf. הִדְבִּיקָ֑תְהוּ Ju 20:42; 3 pl. sf. הִדְבִּיקֻהוּ 2 S 1:6; 1 s. הִדְבַּקְתִּי Je 13:11; וְהִדְבַּקְתִּי Ez 29:4; Impf. juss. יַדְבֵּק Dt 28:21; וַיַּדְבֵּק Gn 31:23; אַדְבִּיק Ez 3:26; וַיַּדְבִּיקוּ Ju 18:22; 20:45; וַיַּדְבְּקוּ 1 S 14:22 + 2 times (cf. Ges§ 53 R 4 Kö i 210). e.g. Judges 20:42
- 1. cause to cling or cleave to, sq. acc. + אֶל, lit. וּלְשׁוֹנְךָ אַדְבִּיק אֶל־חִכֶּ֑ךָ Ez 3:26; v. also 29:4 (sq. acc. + בְּ; lit., but in metaph.); fig. of causing to cleave to י׳ Je 13:11 (sq. acc. + אֶל); cf. further Dt 28:21 (subj. י׳, sq. acc. of disease + בְּ). e.g. Ezekiel 3:26
- 2. pursue closely, sq. אַחֲרִי Ju 20:45 1 S 14:22; 1 Ch 10:2 = 1 S 31:2 (sq. acc.); so also 2 S 1:6 (sq. acc.) e.g. Judges 20:45
- 3. overtake, sq. acc. Gn 31:23 (E), Ju 18:22; cf. 20:42 (subj. הַמִּלְחָמָה). e.g. Genesis 31:23
Hophal
- Pt. וּלְשׁוֹנִי מֻדְבָּק מַלְקוֹחָ֑י ψ 22:16 and my tongue is made to cleave (to) my gums; cf. sub Qal 1. e.g. Psalms 22:16
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. cling, cleave, keep close (NH id., Arabic دَبِقَ, Aramaic דְּבֵק, דְּבַק, ܕܒܶܩ, ܕܒܰܩ )—
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Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דָּבֵק
- (b. h.) to cleave, adhere, stick. B. Bath. 91ᵇ, v. infra.—Yalk. Gen. 133 דבקו כל החיל וכ׳ the whole army was close to the fortress.—Ib. Deut. 824 ד׳ לסדומיים he joined the Sodomites.—2) to join, glue, affix. Y. Meg. I, 71ᵈ top דּוֹבְקִין בְּדֶבֶק the parchment is joined with glue.—Part. pass. דָּבוּק, f. דְּבוּקָה attached, close, cleaving. Sot. 42ᵇ (ref. to Ruth I, 14) בני הדבוקה the descendants of her who was attached (to Naomi). Gen. R. s. 20 דְּבוּקִין לעור close to the skin. Snh. 64ᵃ (ref. to Deut. IV, 4) like two dates הדְּבוּקִים וכ׳ which stick to one another (easily separated); ib. דבוקים ממש really glued (inseparable); Yalk. Deut. 824 כשתי … הדְּבוּקוֹת; a. fr. e.g. Ruth 1:14
- to be joined, attached, affixed. Keth. 111ᵇ; Yalk. l. c. is it possible for man לִידָּבֵק וכ׳ to be joined to the Divine Majesty? Ib. כאילו נ׳ כשכינה (Keth. l. c. מִדַּבֵּק) as though he were joined. B. Bath. 91ᵇ ששבה ונִדְבְּקָה וכ׳ (Ms. H. ודָבְקָה) (Ruth) who came back and remained attached to Bethlehem (v. supra); a. fr.
- 1. to glue. R. Hash. III, 6 (27ᵃ; 27ᵇ).
- 2. to invite one to join in travel. Gen. R. s. 29 ראה אחד ודִיבְּקוֹ he saw a person and made him go with him.—Part. pass. מְדוּבָּק Yalk. Deut. l. c. שמְדוּבָּקִים לחייו וכ׳ who cling to the Life of the World (the Lord).
- to paste, fasten. Pes. 37ᵃ הרתיח ולבסוף ה׳ he heated the pot and then pasted the dough to its wall. Ib. 37ᵇ
- to be joined. Gen. R. s. 59 אין ארור מִתְדַּבֵּק בברוך (Yalk. Hos. 528 מִדַּבֵּק) the cursed (Eliezer) shall not be joined (through marriage) to the blessed (Isaac). Keth. l. c., v. Nif.—Yalk. Deut. l. c. מִדַּבֶּקֶת; a. fr. [Sabb. 113ᵇ [read:] לִידַּבֵּק עם הנשים or לדבר, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note.]
דְּבֵק
- , to adhere &c. Targ. Ps. XLIV, 26. Targ. Prov. XVIII, 24 דָּבֵיק ed. Lag.; a. e.—Keth. 111ᵇ וכי אפשר לדְבוּקֵי, v. preced. Nif.
- to paste, glue. Men. 11ᵃ דַּבְּקֵיה לקומץ וכ׳ if he pasted the handfull of dough to the wall of the vessel.
- to be attached, join. Targ. Ruth I, 14; a. fr.—Gitt. 56ᵇ מהו לאִידְּבוּקֵי בהו how about joining their ranks?—Pes. 49ᵃ לאִידְּבַק אנא בזרעיה Ms. M. (ed. דאדבק בזרעיה) that I should be connected with his descendants. Sabb. 113ᵇ. Gen. R. s. 14 אית חספין מִתְדַּבְּקִין can broken earthen vessels be joined together?
- 1. to reach, overtake, attain to, obtain (corresp. to h. הִשִּׂיג). Targ. Gen. XXXI, 23. Targ. O. Lev. XIV, 21 sq.; a. fr.—Part. pass. מַדְבַּק joined work. Targ. I Kings VII, 29 (h. text ליות; v. 30 עובד דיבוק).
- 2. to join (plans), to contrive fraud (nectere dolos; h. text הצמיד). Targ. Ps. L, 19 (Ms. Pa.).
דֶּבֶק
- preced.)
- 1. glue, paste. Y. Meg. I, 71ᵈ top, v. דָּבַק. Sabb. VIII, 4, v. שַׁבְשֶׁבֶת.
- 2. junction. Ḥull. 50ᵃ מקום הד׳ the place where the entrails adhere to the hip.—Pl. דְּבָקִים followers. Yalk. Deut. 824 אתם ודִבְקֵיכֶם ye and your followers.
- 3. nexus, cause. Pl. as above; constr. דִּבְקֵי, דִּיבְ׳.—ד׳ מיתה duties the neglect of which is the cause of premature death. Sabb. 32ᵃ (a Variant of בדקי, v. בֶּדֶק); Y. ib. II, 5ᵇ bot.; Tosef. ib. II, 10 דיבק ed. Zuck. (corr. acc.); Ber. 31ᵇ
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Forms in the corpus
The 49 distinct written forms H1692 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1692, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 48 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 52 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:24
- Numbers 36:7
- Deuteronomy 10:20
- Joshua 22:5
- Judges 18:22
- Ruth 1:14
- 1 Samuel 14:22
- 2 Samuel 1:6
- 1 Kings 11:2
- 2 Kings 3:3
- 1 Chronicles 10:2
- Job 19:20
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
