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    1. As it says in Isaiah 14:1-2, “For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob


    2. In Genesis 2:24, we find the infamous Scripture that a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh


    3. The two cleave together and become “one


    4. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good


    5. "And you've brought friends?" Nathalia said, seeing a figure wearing a suit of gore-covered plate mail cleave a demon in half with a double headed axe


    6. Lady Swan became Cross Cleave in a blurring of the blade that reflected the light, becoming Shadow Dancer followed by Night Hawk’s Wings


    7. for me and encouraging me to cleave to Him on the


    8. My goal was to cleave to Him


    9. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh


    10. 17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour to the Lord

    11. 21 The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, whither you go to possess it


    12. 60 Moreover he will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt, which you wast afraid of; and they shall cleave to you


    13. He will cleave to the dark still, understanding that success comes only through pain and misery


    14. 20 When you were thirsty did I not cleave the rock and waters flowed out to your fill? For the heat I covered you with the leaves of the trees


    15. Still, it is amusing you cleave to him at your centre, even though he was willing to kill you for what he wanted more truly


    16. Cleave then to the Lord and you will understand and perceive all things


    17. To cleave to the Lord and hold


    18. For luxury and deceit have no memories on account of the folly with which they are clothed; but when punishment and torture cleave to a man for one day he is punished and tortured for a year; for punishment and torture have powerful memories


    19. "And they who gave in their branches half-green and half-withered are those who are immersed in business and do not cleave to the saints


    20. "And they who returned their branches two-thirds withered and one-third green are those that were faithful indeed; but after acquiring wealth and becoming distinguished amongst the heathen they clothed themselves with great pride and became lofty-minded and deserted the truth and did not cleave to the righteous but lived with the heathen and this way of life became more agreeable to them

    21. Those [accordingly who are entangled in many various kinds of business do not ] cleave to the servants of God but wander away being choked by their business transactions; and the rich cleave with difficulty to the servants of God fearing lest these should ask something of them


    22. 3 He spoke of the pigs with this meaning: You shall not cleave he means to men of this sort who are likened to pigs for when they become lustful they forget their Lord but when they are in need they think on the Lord; even like the pigs when it eats knowing not its lord but when it is hungry it cries and when it has received it is again is silent


    23. 6 You shall not covet your neighbour's goods; You shall not be an extortioner; You shall not cleave with your soul to the proud but you shall have your conversation with the lowly and the just


    24. 1 Let us therefore cleave to them who live in peace and godliness not to them who hypocritically profess to desire peace


    25. 2 Since therefore we have become the partakers in many great and glorious actions let us finally return to that goal of peace that was given us from the beginning; let us look steadfastly to the Father and Creator of the whole world and let us cleave to the glorious and excellent gifts and benefits of his peace


    26. 3 Let us cleave therefore to them to whom grace has been given from God


    27. 1 To such examples ought we also to cleave brethren


    28. 4 Let us therefore cleave to the guiltless and the just for they are the elect of God


    29. His tongue seemed to cleave to His mouth


    30. 'In the arrow-play our horsemen would have the worst of it, for the armor of the asshuri is the better, and when it came to sword-strokes their close-marshaled ranks of trained swordsmen would cleave through our loose lines and scatter our men like chaff before the wind

    31. Ten tribes will leave and to another cleave


    32. And for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall become as one


    33. If I could but come to grips with something tangible, that I could cleave with my sword! I tell you, it's not by chance that the Picts have of late so fiercely assailed the frontiers, so that the Bossonians have called for aid to beat them back


    34. "Let me see my foe and I'll cleave his skull to the teeth


    35. it could cleave him in two


    36. Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof


    37. mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one


    38. and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh


    39. and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one


    40. mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they

    41. “how We pour down the water, and cleave the earth


    42. The Bible challenges us to “Prove all things, cleave to


    43. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to


    44. before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in


    45. shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave


    46. "Because they are the furthest removed action for a person living the life they are in, at the point of the receipt of the news: becoming world champions in sport at entirely the wrong age, selling everything to launch a business idea, leaving everything they know to cleave a new life in a foreign country where there is no chance of lapsing back into the ways of Blighty, dedicating their lives to a cause which they feel warrants such a sacrifice with the most incredible, world-changing results


    47. to compose himself after seeing the mighty blow cleave the Amazon Queen in two


    48. The Bible says: a man must leave, and then cleave; so before you can cleave, you have to leave some things


    49. If a man has been involved sexually with others, it's hard for him to bond intimately with his wife, because he's got all the junk in his life; but when he comes to Christ, opens his life for ministry, and begins to renounce and put off those things - that means you get rid of the photos, you get rid of everything, so you can cleave and become one


    50. · Cleave (4347) – to glue to, adhere to, join self to
































    1. The boarman cleaved a path through the closely


    2. Nathalia kept up with two, three, sometimes even four at a time, but her blades had been reduced to shields, darting in all directions to parry a multitude of blows while every second, a score of her companions were cleaved in half, cut down by the demons' blades as though the wolf helmed beings were reaping wheat


    3. With the next swing of its blade, the Reaper cleaved through the man's neck


    4. same one that had cleaved her foot


    5. I didn’t realize how much Cara had already cleaved to the idea of being an Allegiant, loyal to the faction system, loyal to our founders


    6. had cleaved it in two


    7. padlock lay cleaved in two on the earth beside it, the precision cut


    8. With a mighty swing of the Buster Sword, Cloud cleaved the


    9. But my machete has also cleaved his trachea, and bloody bubbles foam angrily around the slit in his neck


    10. For you remain forever and shall we perish everlastingly? O Lord Almighty the God of Israel hear now the prayer of the dead of Israel and of their children that have sinned before you and have not listened to the voice of the Lord their God therefore evils have cleaved fast to us

    11. Without waiting, Yigal cleaved it with one stroke


    12. The worst of those was a gash that had cleaved his skull almost in half, and only a thick layer of scab covered his brain where it was exposed


    13. For now, she must regain her strength, and on the morrow she would form a plan to help the Lost One and those that cleaved to him, a plan which would have to bring healing to them


    14. Worst of all was the way the Lammas Lord had cleaved to him and had wanted the murderer to live even though it was best for him to die


    15. No, Annyeke thought, it was not, but in Lammas Jemelda and those who cleaved to her had chosen that way


    16. Its fiery finger cleaved the fist down the center as if silently pointing in accusation at


    17. hardly a hesitation, it cleaved the head from the body of the huddled guard as he struggled to


    18. He cleaved downward at my head, but I wasn’t there


    19. I cursed and it was a palpable thing that rippled through the air and cleaved a hole through the Mist showing us the way forward


    20. On both sides of the one-lane paved road, the mist hovered as if cleaved in two

    21. Joey made a wondrous spin kick…that nearly cleaved off Lezura’s face


    22. The trees lashed at their faces viciously as they cleaved their way through, desperately trying to keep pace with Krystal


    23. It was her negative self that had been cleaved from her being earlier


    24. ” The Egyptian cleaved the air with the short sword gripped in his hand showing Byron fear-spurred strength


    25. Well, when that cell cleaved itself in half, it may have resulted in identical chromosomes, but the soul… the very soul of that cell did not separate identically


    26. By transferring the more advance embryos (cleaved embryos) into the


    27. of the cleaved embryos in the Fallopian tube of the female partner


    28. After it was all over, with Val cleaved now to Arna for life, the magistrate had us Clan back to his lavish villa for a reception party that went on all day: we were well fed, stuffed with produce imported from Europa and preserved for winter


    29. Where the finest of sword steels would’ve melted in contact with the heated flesh of my opponent, my sword of Ruach cleaved through with impunity


    30. With a mighty overhead, downward swing of his axe blade, he cleaved the head of the nearest

    31. His body, hard and wonderful in itself, cleaved against the struggling body of the other man; not a muscle in him relaxed


    32. My heart invariably cleaved to the master's, in preference to Catherine's side: with reason I imagined, for he was kind, and trustful, and honourable; and she---she could not be called the opposite, yet she seemed to allow herself such wide latitude, that I had little faith in her principles, and still less sympathy for her feelings


    33. The axe cleaved the air in front of Heyward, and cutting some of the flowing ringlets of Alice, quivered in the tree above her head


    34. Your mother is one of the strongest, smartest women I have ever met, but losing you cleaved her in two


    35. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind


    36. My heart invariably cleaved to the master’s, in preference to Catherine’s side: with reason I imagined, for he was kind, and trustful, and honourable; and she—she could not be called opposite, yet she seemed to allow herself such wide latitude, that I had little faith in her principles, and still less sympathy for her feelings


    37. Mona, who cleaved to her, didn't say a word


    1. 6 And every beast that parts the hoof, and cleaves the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that you shall eat


    2. He flicks thrice more and blasts another breath in pursuit of this Bojudai, who flies some incredibly talented evasive maneuvers before the blade neatly cleaves him


    3. But a clean tanging wind bellied her silken sail, and as a wild swan cleaves the sky to her nest, she sped seaward, flames mounting higher and higher from her deck to lick at the mast and envelop the figure that lay lapped in scarlet on the shining pyre


    4. She cleaves to me


    5. one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth


    6. when one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth


    7. (5) Psalm 141:7 "Our bones are scattered at the GRAVE’S (sheol) mouth, as when one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth


    8. And how could you disbelieve, when God's revelations are being recited to you, and among you is His Messenger? Whoever cleaves to God has been guided to a straight path


    9. (19) Psalms 141:7 "Our bones are scattered at the GRAVE'S [sheol-Hell] mouth, as when one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth


    10. He slays, lays low, cleaves, hews; but art hath made

    11. The navvy, staggering forward, cleaves the crowd and lurches towards the tramsiding on the farther side under the railway bridge bloom appears, flushed, panting, cramming bread and chocolate into a sidepocket


    12. Had he told me so when I was pleased and satisfied with mine own amendment, I had called him fool for his pains; but now, since I see mine own infirmity, and the sin that cleaves to my best performance, I have been forced to be of his opinion


    1. The birdshot bounced off the Orcs thick hides and, while the brothers were busy reloading, the Orc sergeant stepped forward and, with one massive uninterrupted blow, chopped both of the brothers in half, the blade cleaving through them at chest level


    2. Instead of landing punches, his fists became blades of black steel, cleaving his foes into pieces or piercing their flesh


    3. S’ilindsa continued to pound away at the giant, every strike cleaving large chunks off his body


    4. She squealed in his arms, cleaving tightly to her own guardian angel


    5. There were times also when I was cleaving to Him on


    6. They reappeared three meters in front of the dragon, still flying at a pace that would cover more than three kilometers in a minute, and Mark was already swinging his sword at it’s neck on the way by, cutting it more than halfway through and cleaving the spine


    7. They kept to the edge of the woods as they walked towards the village, close enough to the shadows to avoid being seen by any Lammasser cleaving to Lord Tregannon but not too close that the wolves might be encouraged to attack


    8. 2 These are they who persecute the good -lovers of a lie not knowing the reward of righteousness not cleaving to the good nor to righteous judgment watching not for the good but for the bad from whom meekness and patience are afar off loving things that are vain following after recompense having no compassion on the needy nor labouring for him that is in trouble not knowing him that made them murderers of children corrupters of the image of God who turn away from him that is in need who oppress him that is in trouble unjust judges of the poor erring in all things


    9. And they who were covered with scabs are those who have denied their Lord and have not returned to Him again; but becoming withered and desert-like and not cleaving to the servants of God but living in solitude they destroy their own souls


    10. They reappeared ten feet in front of the dragon, still flying at a pace that would cover more than two miles in a minute, and Mark was already swinging his sword at it’s neck on the way by, cutting it more than halfway through and cleaving the spine

    11. Such is the life and immortality which this flesh may afterwards receive the Holy Spirit cleaving to it; and no one can either express or utter what things the Lord has prepared for His elect


    12. An axe-man ran out, cleaving one of the rider’s legs and shattering the horse’s ribs with the blow


    13. ’ Corvus swung the great axe, cleaving through both men’s throats with a single arcing swing


    14. 1 Jesus and his friends tarried in Caesarea beyond the time expected because one of the huge steering paddles of the vessel on which they intended to embark was discovered to be in danger of cleaving


    15. He could not tell whether he was slashing off its members or whether he was cleaving its bulk, which knit behind the slicing blade


    16. Where Conan beat down opposition by the sheer weight and power of his blows, breaking spears, splitting skulls and cleaving bosoms to the breast-bone, Valeria brought into action a finesse of sword-play that dazzled and bewildered her antagonists before it slew them


    17. He swung viciously with his sword and it felt as if he were cleaving cobwebs


    18. Tomz swung back his arms, nearly cleaving off S’us head


    19. The mech instinctively kicked at Jivel, the swift woman dodged it, but the mech swung its arm around, nearly cleaving off her head


    20. “This is true cleaving, as he becomes one substance with God into whom he was

    21. It was the river that forged this cleft in mountains north of the Kaiama Ranges and south of the Coromandel Peninsula, the waters of time cleaving a gap on which man could capitalise


    22. cleaving him in two


    23. So we talked about a man needing to be freed, and leave behind the defilements of previous relationships, sexual encounters, and things that have come through from his family background, generational things that defile him, and stop him cleaving to his wife


    24. The bonding or cleaving process is activated by:


    25. cleaving shoulders first top off towards the watchful eye and something’s nothing more


    26. “And cleave the earth cleaving


    27. The violent winds which blow after the rainfall have an effect in this cleaving


    28. Besides, this cleaving let the sunrays enter and the air penetrates


    29. When we say that a person is cleaving to the dust, we mean that they have nothing


    30. "That was about a man cleaving to his wife

    31. She seemed the vividest thing, suddenly cleaving the pallors and uncertainties of reeds and water and flecked northern sky


    32. not the way,” he cried again, the pain cleaving his heart


    33. So, as it is easier for me to imitate him in this than in cleaving giants asunder, cutting off serpents' heads, slaying dragons, routing armies, destroying fleets, and breaking enchantments, and as this place is so well suited for a similar purpose, I must not allow the opportunity to escape which now so conveniently offers me its forelock


    34. Out of the bad majority, the varied countless frauds of men and states, Electric, antiseptic yet, cleaving, suffusing all,


    35. Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,


    36. cleaving, as he watches,


    37. " With these words he approached the cavern, and perceived that it was impossible to let himself down or effect an entrance except by sheer force or cleaving a passage; so drawing his sword he began to demolish and cut away the brambles at the mouth of the cave, at the noise of which a vast multitude of crows and choughs flew out of it so thick and so fast that they knocked Don Quixote down; and if he had been as much of a believer in augury as he was a Catholic Christian he would have taken it as a bad omen and declined to bury himself in such a place


    38. She was coming out of Marseilles harbor, and was standing out to sea rapidly, her sharp prow cleaving through the waves


    39. They sailed; Edmond was again cleaving the azure sea which had been the first horizon of his youth, and which he had so often dreamed of in prison


    40. The sailors had again hoisted sail, and the vessel was once more cleaving the waves

    41. Now and then Duncan caught a glimpse of a light form cleaving the air in some desperate bound, and he rather hoped than believed that the captive yet retained the command of his astonishing powers of activity


    42. Again among the tiers of shipping, in and out, avoiding rusty chain-cables frayed hempen hawsers and bobbing buoys, sinking for the moment floating broken baskets, scattering floating chips of wood and shaving, cleaving floating scum of coal, in and out, under the figure-head of the John of Sunderland making a speech to the winds (as is done by many Johns), and the Betsy of Yarmouth with a firm formality of bosom and her knobby eyes starting two inches out of her head; in and out, hammers going in ship-builders' yards, saws going at timber, clashing engines going at things unknown, pumps going in leaky ships, capstans going, ships going out to sea, and unintelligible sea-creatures roaring curses over the bulwarks at respondent lightermen, in and out,—out at last upon the clearer river, where the ships' boys might take their fenders in, no longer fishing in troubled waters with them over the side, and where the festooned sails might fly out to the wind


    43. And then her thoughts, cleaving through space like a bird in the air, rested on Cavalcanti


    44. He lay hidden there all day, his tongue cleaving to the roof of his mouth with all the intensity of thirst engendered by heat and fear


    45. It was hard to even estimate where it might have come from in the wild confusion of smoke, muzzle flashes, and burning galleons, but his eye narrowed as he suddenly saw a familiar profile cleaving through the smoke


    46. WHAT SHE WANTED, actually, was an airtight door to come down behind her, cleaving them cleanly, so that she could be angry at Keith without being angry at herself


    47. And you can tell me nothing of the cleaving of the horn? '


    48. beyond the boil and bubble of the fall, cleaving the black water as neatly


    49. No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will


    50. A cannon ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagration and his suite, and fell into the column to the measure of ‘Left





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    Synonyms for "cleave"

    adhere cleave cling cohere stick rive split attach divide hew separate rend asunder

    "cleave" definitions

    separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument


    make by cutting into


    come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation