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# דָּבֵק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1695

**clinging** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

clinging [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1695/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּבֵק: adj. clinging, cleaving [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1695/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. clinging, cleaving (to), דּ׳ abs. וְיֵשׁ אֹהֵב דָּבֵק מֵאָח Pr 18:24; דְּבֵקָה לְ 2 Ch 3:12 (of cherub’s wing); of cleaving to הַדְּבֵקִים בְּ י׳ Dt 4:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] touching (1); clinging (1); were\] clinging (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 18:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.24/#tree)

אִ֣ישׁ רֵ֭עִים לְהִתְרֹעֵ֑עַ וְיֵ֥שׁ אֹ֝הֵ֗ב דָּבֵ֥ק מֵאָֽח׃

*Word for word:* a.person of.companions \[is\].to be.broken and there.\[is\] \[one.who\].loves clinging more than.a.brother

*JPS 1917:* There are friends that one hath to his own hurt; but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

[Deuteronomy 4:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.4/#tree)

וְאַתֶּם֙ הַדְּבֵקִ֔ים בַּיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם חַיִּ֥ים כֻּלְּכֶ֖ם הַיּֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and you \[who were\].clinging on Yahweh God your \[are\].alive of.you all this day

*JPS 1917:* But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1695.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1695/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).