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cleave

Meaning of “cleave”

Sense 1: To split or divide. Sense 2: To cling closely or remain joined.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
30 occurrences30 verses17 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 2:24

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Joshua 22:5
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joshua 22:5 · retained source text

But take diligent heed, to doe the Commandement and the Law, which Moses the seruant of the LORD charged you, to loue the LORD your God, and to walke in all his wayes, and to keepe his Commaundements, and to cleaue vnto him, and to serue him with all your heart, and with all your soule.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 10.12.

Joshua 23:8
But cleave unto the Lord your God, as ye have done unto this day.
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1611 witness · Joshua 23:8 · retained source text

But cleaue vnto the LORD your God, as yee haue done vnto this day.

1611 marginal noteOr, for if you will cleaue, &c.

Joshua 23:12
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
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1611 witness · Joshua 23:12 · retained source text

Else, if ye do in any wise go backe, and cleaue vnto the remnant of these nations, euen these that remaine among you, and shall make marriages with them, and goe in vnto them, and they to you:

2 Kings 5:27
The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
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1611 witness · 2 Kings 5:27 · retained source text

The leprosie therefore of Naaman shall cleaue vnto thee, and vnto thy seede for euer: And hee went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

Job 38:38
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
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1611 witness · Job 38:38 · retained source text

When the dust groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together?

1611 marginal noteOr, when the dust is turned into myre.

1611 marginal noteHeb. is powred.

Psalms 74:15
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
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1611 witness · Psalms 74:15 · retained source text

Thou didst cleaue the fountaine and the flood: thou driedst vp mightie riuers.

1611 marginal noteHeb. riuers of strength.

1611 marginal noteExo. 17.5 num.20.11 iosh.3.13.

Psalms 101:3
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
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1611 witness · Psalms 101:3 · retained source text

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the worke of them that turne aside, it shal not cleaue to me.

1611 marginal noteHeb. thing of Belial.

Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
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1611 witness · Psalms 102:5 · retained source text

By reason of the voice of my groning, my bones cleaue to my skinne.

1611 marginal noteOr, flesh.

Psalms 137:6
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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1611 witness · Psalms 137:6 · retained source text

If I doe not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth; if I preferre not Ierusalem aboue my chiefe ioy.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the head of my ioy.

Isaiah 14:1
FOR the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 14:1 · retained source text

¶ For the LORD wil haue mercie on Iacob, and wil yet choose Israel, and set them in their owne land: and the strangers shalbe ioyned with them, and they shal cleaue to the house of Iacob.

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Historical definitions

To part; to open; to crack; to separate, as parts of cohering bodies.

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