דבק

דבק • (transliteration needed)

1. to cleave, to adhere

Compare Arabic دِبْق‎ (dibq, “birdlime”) and دَبِقَ‎ (dabiqa, “to stick, adhere, cleave, cling”); also Classical Syriac ܕܘܒܩܐ‎ (dubbāqā, “birdlime”) (from ܕܒܩ‎ (dbaq, “to stick”)).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew):
  • (verb): IPA^(key): /daˈvak/
  • (noun): IPA^(key): /ˈde.vek/

דֶּבֶק • (dévek) m

1. glue

דָּבַק • (davák) (pa'al construction, passive counterpart נִדְבַּק‎)

1. to cling, stick, adhere, attach
   • Genesis 2:24, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     ‏עַל־כֵּן יַעֲזָב־אִישׁ אֶת־אָבִיו וְאֶת־אִמּוֹ וְדָבַק בְּאִשְׁתּוֹ וְהָיוּ לְבָשָׂר אֶחָד׃‎‎

     'al-kén ya'azov-'ísh 'et-'avív v'et-'imó v'davák b'ishtó v'hayú l'vasár 'ekhád.
     ʿal-kēn yaʿăzoḇ-ʾīš ʾeṯ-ʾāḇīw wəʾeṯ-ʾimmō wəḏāḇaq bəʾištō wəhāyū ləḇāśār ʾeḥāḏ.

     Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

2. to be attached to

• H1692 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “דבק” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• “tobacco”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

• בדק‎