Lexicon :: Strong's G2853 - kollaō

“Fear the LORD your God, worship him, and take your oaths in his name.

“You are to fear the LORD your God and worship him. Remain faithful[fn] to him and take oaths in his name.

“He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

“The LORD will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The LORD will blot out his name under heaven,

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter.[fn] Don’t go and gather grain in another field, and don’t leave this one, but stay here close to my female servants.

So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bichri, but the men of Judah from the Jordan all the way to Jerusalem remained loyal to their king.

from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, because they will turn your heart away to follow their gods.” To these women Solomon was deeply attached[fn] in love.

The rest of the events of Ahaziah’s reign, along with his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.[fn]

Nevertheless, Joram clung to the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit. He did not turn away from them.

“Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever.” So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased, resembling snow.[fn]

He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following him but kept the commands the LORD had commanded Moses.

The noblemen’s voices were hushed,

and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.

when the dust hardens like cast metal

and the clods of dirt stick together?

One scale is so close to another[fn]

that no air can pass between them.

The folds of his flesh are joined together,

solid as metal[fn] and immovable.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;

my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.

You put me into the dust of death.

May integrity and what is right

watch over me,

for I wait for you.

For we have sunk down to the dust;

our bodies cling to the ground.

I follow close to you;

your right hand holds on to me.

A devious heart will be far from me;

I will not be involved with[fn] evil.

Because of the sound of my groaning,

my flesh sticks to my bones.

My life is down in the dust;

give me life through your word.

I cling to your decrees;

LORD, do not put me to shame.

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth

if I do not remember you,

if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

“Just as underwear clings to one’s waist, so I fastened the whole house of Israel and of Judah to me” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“so that they might be my people for my fame, praise, and glory, but they would not obey.

Without compassion the Lord has swallowed up

all the dwellings of Jacob.

In his wrath he has demolished

the fortified cities of Daughter Judah.

He brought them to the ground

and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.

The nursing baby’s tongue

clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst.

Infants beg for food,

but no one gives them any.