Genesis 2:24
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
עָזַב
ʻâzab
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
אֵם
ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
דָּבַק
dâbaq
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Key Terms in This Verse
דָּבַק dâbaq
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
Study H1692 →אֵם ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
Study H517 →בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →אָב ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Study H1 →כֵּן kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Study H3651 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
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