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# cleave

«cleave» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To split or cut right through something with a heavy…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (cleaves, cleaved or cleft, cleaved or cleft, cleaving) (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) To split or cut right through something with a heavy blow: cleave the wood with an axe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#m1)

2) To stick firmly to something: cleave to the truth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a heavy blow splits an enemy down to the chest

### examples

- But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. (Torah DEU.4.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#x1)
- Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. (Torah GEN.2.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#x2)
- And his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel. (Torah GEN.34.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#x3)
- Thou dost cleave the earth with rivers. (Prophets HAB.3.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#x4)
- Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers. (Writings PSA.74.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#x5)
- I cleave unto Thy testimonies; O LORD, put me not to shame. (Writings PSA.119.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#x6)
- The knight cried, «Cleave him to the brisket!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#x7)
- The axe cleaved the log in two. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#x8)
- In old tales the hero could cleave a rock with one blow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/#x9)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.58/)
- [And his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1057/)
- [But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.116/)
- [but cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.639/)
- [Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.51/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cleave» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cleave/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.