'Cleave' in the Bible

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk [that is, to live each and every day] in all His ways and to hold tightly to Him—

Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So Gehazi departed from his presence, a leper as white as snow.

When the dust hardens into a massAnd the clods stick together [because of the heat]?

“The folds of his flesh are joined together,Firm on him and immobile [when he moves].

For our life has melted away into the dust;Our body clings to the ground.

You broke open fountains and streams;You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

I cling tightly to Your testimonies;O Lord, do not put me to shame!

Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouthIf I do not remember you,If I do not prefer JerusalemAbove my chief joy.

“Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it; and let us breach its wall and tear it apart [each of us taking a portion] and set up the son of Tabeel over it as its [puppet] king,”

For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob (the captives in Babylon) and will again choose Israel, and will settle them in their own land. Foreigners (Gentiles) will join them [as proselytes] and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob (Israel).

And I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you cannot talk and you cannot be a man who rebukes the people, for they are a rebellious house.