# H1692 דָּבַק

דָּבַק (dâbaq), Strong’s H1692: properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit KJV: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined…

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*dâbaq* — properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit

KJV: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together)…

Occurs 54 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- דָּבַק, דָּבֵק vb. cling, cleave, keep close
- Qal
- 1 cling, cleave to
- 2 cling, cleave to
- Pu. of crocodile’s scales, they are joined together
- Hiph.
- 1 cause to cling or cleave to
- 2 pursue closely
- 3 overtake
- Hoph. and my tongue is made to cleave (to) my gums

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=24) — Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- [Genesis 19:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=19) — See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown…
- [Genesis 31:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=23) — He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
- [Genesis 34:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=3) — His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
- [Numbers 36:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/36?v=7) — So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep…
- [Numbers 36:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/36?v=9) — So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep…
- [Deuteronomy 10:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/10?v=20) — You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
- [Deuteronomy 11:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/11?v=22) — For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love the LORD your God, to…
- [Deuteronomy 13:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/13?v=5) — You shall walk after the LORD your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and…
- [Deuteronomy 13:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/13?v=18) — Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show…