Proskollao means “cleave” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4347 — makkah (“wound”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4347 προσκολλάω (proskollao) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. proskollao (pros-kol-lah'-o) v. 1. to glue to 2. (figuratively) to adhere It has 21 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include cleave and joined. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
proskollao (pros-kol-lah'-o) v. 1. to glue to 2. (figuratively) to adhere [from G4314 and G2853] KJV: cleave, join (self) Root(s): G4314, G2853
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4347. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to join
Usage: προσ-κολλάω, -ῶ, [in LXX chiefly for דָּבַק ;] to glue to; pass., reflexive, to stick to, cleave to (Plat.): metaphorically (with dative, Jos.23:8, Sir.6:34 al.), before πρός, Mrk.10:7 (R, txt.), Eph.5:31 (LXX).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render proskollao, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4347 (προσκολλάω) appears 17 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
15 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ye shall not attend to those who have in them divining spirits, nor attach yourselves to enchanters, to pollute yourselves with them: I am the Lord your God.
So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel go about from tribe to tribe, for the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in the inheritance of his family’s tribe.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Stand in the multitude of the elders; And cleave unto him that is wise.
All flesh consorteth according to kind, And a man will cleave to his like.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4347.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ye shall not attend to those who have in them divining spirits, nor attach yourselves to enchanters, to pollute yourselves with them: I am the Lord your God.
So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel go about from tribe to tribe, for the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in the inheritance of his family’s tribe.
And the inheritance shall not go about from one tribe to another, but the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in his own inheritance.
And it shall come to pass that if ye will indeed hearken to all these commands, which I charge thee to observe this day, to love the Lord our God, and to walk in all his ways, and to cleave close to him;
And there shall nothing of the cursed thing cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from his fierce anger, and show thee mercy, and pity thee, and multiply thee, as he swore to thy fathers;
The Lord cause the pestilence to cleave to thee, until he shall have consumed thee off the land into which thou goest to inherit it.
But ye shall cleave to the Lord our God, as ye have done until this day.
And Ruth said to her mother-in-law, Yea, he said also to me, Keep close to my damsels, until the men shall have finished all my reaping.
And Ruth joined herself to the damsels of Boaz to glean until they had finished the barley harvest and the wheat harvest.
He arose and smote the Philistines, until his hand was weary, and his hand clove to the sword: and the Lord wrought a great salvation in that day, and the people rested behind him only to strip the slain.
They will remain united each to the other: They are closely joined, and cannot be separated.
But it is good for me to cleave close to God, To put my trust in the Lord; That I may proclaim all thy praises In the gates of the daughter of Zion.
And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy river to stick to thy sides, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy river:
Whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with earthenware, they shall be mingled with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave together, as the iron does not mix itself with earthenware.
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Stand in the multitude of the elders; And cleave unto him that is wise.
All flesh consorteth according to kind, And a man will cleave to his like.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4347, grouped by book.
Proskollao (Strong's G4347) is a Greek word most simply glossed "cleave". proskollao (pros-kol-lah'-o) v. 1. to glue to 2. (figuratively) to adhere
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G4347 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4347 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cleave and joined. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 15 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4347, with linked reader references where each row is available.