דָּבֵק
dâbêq · H1695 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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joined to, touching
State of being positioned against another object in such a way that the two cannot be separated easily
Examples2 Chronicles 3:12 The wing of the other cherub, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and its other wing, of five cubits, was attached to the wing of the first cherub.
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commited, devoted
State in which someone is closely involved with another person or deity, out of affection and/or solidarity
ExamplesDeuteronomy 4:4 “But you who clung to the LORD your God are alive today, every one of you.
Proverbs 18:24 A person of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Attach002003001001
- The adjective describes being closely joined or attached, used of the cherub's wing touching and being joined to the wing of the adjacent cherub.
- Associate002003002002
- The word also describes a person clinging loyally to the LORD, and figuratively a friend who sticks closer than a brother in loyal association.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1695. dabeq דָּבֵק adjective clinging, cleaving (to), ׳דּ absolute מֵאָח דָּבֵק אֹהֵב…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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