Cleave
English - Cleave to split or divide by a cutting blow, to penetrate or pass through |
Hebrew - chaloph exchange, pass away, vanishing, change, knife |
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In the Qal the usage of the verb is illustrated by Judges 5:26. Jael pierced through Sisera's temples (cf. Job 20:24). Whirlwinds, conquerors, ghosts pass through or by (Isa 21:1; 8:8; Job 4:15). |
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Pokorny Etymon: gleubh - 'to cut, cleave, pare, slice' - Semantic Fields: to Cut; to Divide | ||
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Family/Language | Gloss | |
English | ||
Old English: | cleofan, cleaf, clufon, clofen | to cleave |
clufu | clove | |
geclyft | cleft | |
Middle English: | cleft/clift | cleft |
cleven | to cleave | |
cliver | clever | |
clove | clove | |
English: | anaglyph | chased/embossed/sculptured ornament in low relief |
cleave, clove/cleft, cloven/cleft | to split/divide via cutting blow | |
cleft | (partially) split/divided | |
cleft | fissure, space/opening made by splitting | |
clever | showing physical skill/dexterity/resourcefulness | |
clevi | clevis | |
clevis | metal shackle with end drilled to receive pin/bolt | |
clove | small section of separable bulb (e.g. garlic) | |
glume | chaffy bract | |
glyph | ornamental vertical groove in Doric frieze | |
glyptic | art/process of carving/engraving | |
hieroglyphic | re: system of writing in pictorial characters | |
kloof | deep ravine | |
W-Germanic | ||
Middle Dutch: | clove | cleft |
Dutch: | klieven/klooven | to cleave |
kloof | kloof, cleft | |
Afrikaans: | kloof | kloof |
Old Saxon: | klioban | to cleave |
Old High German: | kliuban | to cleave |
Middle High German: | klieben/kliuben | to cleave |
German: | klieben | to cleave |
Kluft | cleft | |
N-Germanic | ||
Old Norse: | kljufa | to cleave |
Icelandic: | kljufa | to cleave |
Danish: | klove | to cleave |
Swedish: | klyfva | to cleave |
Italic | ||
Latin: | glubo, glubere | to peel |
gluma | hull, husk | |
Late Latin: | anaglyphus | embossed |
Middle French: | hieroglyphique | of the hieroglyphs |
French: | glyptique | glyptic, study of engravures on fine stones |
Hellenic | ||
Greek: | anaglyphein | to emboss |
anaglyphos | embossed | |
glyptike | glyptic | |
glyphein | to carve | |
glyphe | carved work | |
hieroglyphikos | re: hieroglyphs, sacred script |