Lexicon :: Strong's H1692 - dāḇaq

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

“Your servant has indeed found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can’t run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

He became infatuated with Jacob’s daughter Dinah. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.[fn]

“No inheritance belonging to the Israelites is to transfer from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of his ancestral tribe.

“No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance.”

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

“For if you carefully observe every one of these commands I am giving you to follow ​— ​to love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, and remain faithful[fn] to him ​— ​

“You must follow the LORD your God and fear him. You must keep his commands and listen to him; you must worship him and remain faithful[fn] to him.

“Nothing set apart for destruction is to remain in your hand, so that the LORD will turn from his burning anger and grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as he swore to your ancestors.

“The LORD will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.

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

“love the LORD your God, obey him, and remain faithful[fn] to him. For he is your life, and he will prolong your days as you live in the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

“Only carefully obey the command and instruction that Moses the LORD’s servant gave you: to love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, keep his commands, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.”

“Instead, be loyal to the LORD your God, as you have been to this day.

“If you ever turn away and become loyal to the rest of these nations remaining among you, and if you intermarry or associate with them and they with you,

After they were some distance from Micah’s house, the men who were in the houses near it were mustered and caught up with the Danites.

They retreated before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and those who came out of the cities[fn] slaughtered those between them.

Then Benjamin turned and fled toward the wilderness to Rimmon Rock, and Israel killed five thousand men on the highways. They overtook them at Gidom and struck two thousand more dead.

Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

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.

Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished all of my harvest.’ ”

Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered grain until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with[fn] her mother-in-law.

When all the Israelite men who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they also joined Saul and Jonathan in the battle.

The Philistines pursued Saul and his sons and killed his sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

“I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear. At that very moment the chariots and the cavalry were closing in on him.

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.

but Eleazar stood his ground and attacked the Philistines until his hand was tired and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops came back to him, but only to plunder the dead.

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.

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 Philistines pursued Saul and his sons and killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;

I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.

The noblemen’s voices were hushed,

and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.

If my step has turned from the way,

my heart has followed my eyes,

or impurity has stained my hands,

when the dust hardens like cast metal

and the clods of dirt stick together?

They are joined to one another,

so closely connected[fn] they cannot be separated.

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.

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.

I will not let anything worthless guide me.[fn]

I hate the practice of transgression;

it will not cling to me.

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.

“then the sword you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine you are worried about will follow on your heels[fn] there to Egypt, and you will die there.

The nursing baby’s tongue

clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst.

Infants beg for food,

but no one gives them any.