דבק

Aramaic

Verb

דבק • (transliteration needed)

1. to cleave, to adhere

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
ד־ב־ק (d-b-q)
6 terms

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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Noun

דֶּבֶק • (dévek) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. glue

Derived terms

• דֶּבֶק מַגָּע (dévek magá)

Verb

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

1. to cling, stick, adhere, attach
   • Tanach, 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

Conjugation

Conjugation of דָּבַק (see also Appendix:Hebrew verbs)

non-finite forms		to-infinitive		לדבוק / לִדְבֹּק
		action noun		—
		passive participle		דָּבוּק
finite forms		singular		plural
		m	f	m	f
past	first	דָּבַקְתִּי		דָּבַקְנוּ
	second	דָּבַקְתָּ	דָּבַקְתְּ	דְּבַקְתֶּם1	דְּבַקְתֶּן1
	third	דָּבַק	דָּבְקָה	דָּבְקוּ
present		דּוֹבֵק	דּוֹבֶקֶת	דּוֹבְקִים	דּוֹבְקוֹת
future	first	אֶדְבַּק		נִדְבַּק
	second	תִּדְבַּק	תִּדְבְּקִי	תִּדְבְּקוּ	תִּדְבַּקְנָה2
	third	יִדְבַּק	תִּדְבַּק	יִדְבְּקוּ	תִּדְבַּקְנָה2
imperative		דְּבַק	דִּבְקִי	דִּבְקוּ	דְּבַקְנָה2

¹ Pronounced דָּבַקְתֶּם and דָּבַקְתֶּן in informal Modern Hebrew.
² Rare in Modern Hebrew.

References

• 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.

Anagrams

• בדק