Midvash

דָּבַקdâbaq

דָּבַק: cling, cleave, keep close

Pronunciation: daw-bak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1692

Meanings

Qal

1. cling, cleave to

a. our belly cleaveth to the earth, sticking to (Job 19:20; Psalms 102:6; 2 Samuel 23:10)

c. remain with, close to (Ruth 2:8; Ruth 2:21; Ruth 2:23)

2. cling, cleave to

Pu`al: they are joined together, passive of Hiph`il 1 (Job 41:9; Job 38:38)

Hiph`il

1. cause to cling or cleave to (Ezekiel 3:26; Ezekiel 29:4; Jeremiah 13:11)

2. pursue closely (Judges 20:45; 1 Samuel 14:22; 1 Chronicles 10:2)

3. overtake (Genesis 31:23; Judges 18:22; Judges 20:42)

Hoph`al: is made to cleave (to), compare below Qal 1 (Psalms 22:16)

: cling

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 54 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
  • Genesis 19:19 “You have been so gracious to me and saved my life, and you have shown such great kindness. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die.
  • Genesis 31:23 So he gathered a group of his relatives and set out in hot pursuit. He caught up with Jacob seven days later in the hill country of Gilead.
  • Genesis 34:3 But then he fell in love with her, and he tried to win her affection with tender words.
  • Numbers 36:7 None of the territorial land may pass from tribe to tribe, for all the land given to each tribe must remain within the tribe to which it was first allotted.
  • Numbers 36:9 No grant of land may pass from one tribe to another; each tribe of Israel must keep its allotted portion of land.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).