# דָּבַק (davaq)

Israeli respelling: da-vaq. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1692. 52 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit

King James renderings: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/davaq-h1692

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Genesis 19:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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;…
- [Genesis 31:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Genesis 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/3) — And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
- [Numbers 36:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 himse…
- [Numbers 36:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 hims…
- [Deuteronomy 10:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Deuteronomy 11:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,…
- [Deuteronomy 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Deuteronomy 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 mer…
- [Deuteronomy 28:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Deuteronomy 28:60](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Deuteronomy 30:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Joshua 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 t…
- [Joshua 23:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/23/8) — But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
- [Joshua 23:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Judges 18:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ov…
- [Judges 20:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 cam…
- [Judges 20:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 pur…
- [Ruth 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/1/14) — And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
- [Ruth 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Ruth 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Ruth 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [1 Samuel 14:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 followe…
- [1 Samuel 31:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/31/2) — And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul’s sons.
- [2 Samuel 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [2 Samuel 20:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Jor…
- [2 Samuel 23:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [1 Kings 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:…
- [2 Kings 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [2 Kings 5:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 s…
- [2 Kings 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [1 Chronicles 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/10/2) — And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons…
- [Job 19:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/20) — My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- [Job 29:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/10) — The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
- [Job 31:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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;
- [Job 38:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/38) — When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
- [Job 41:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/17) — They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
- [Job 41:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/23) — The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
- [Psalms 22:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/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.
- [Psalms 44:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/25) — For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
- [Psalms 63:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/63/8) — My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
- [Psalms 101:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 to me.
- [Psalms 102:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/5) — By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
- [Psalms 119:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/25) — My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
- [Psalms 119:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/31) — I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
- [Psalms 137:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/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.
- [Jeremiah 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 42:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Lamentations 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 the…
- [Ezekiel 3:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 re…
- [Ezekiel 29:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 mid…