κολλάω

kollavw kollavw,
kovllw: passive, present
kollwmai; 1 aorist
ejkollhvqhn; 1 future
kolleqhvsomai ( L T Tr WH); (
kovlla gluten, glue); properly, to glue, glue to, glue together, cement, fasten together; hence universally, to join or fasten firmly together; in the N. T. only the passive is found, with reflexive force, to join oneself to, cleave to; the Septuagint for qb'D;:
oJ
koniortov"
oJ
kollhqei"
hJmi'n, ;
ejkollhvqhsan
aujth'"
aiJ
aJmartivai
a[cri
tou'
oujranou', her sins were such a heap as to reach even unto heaven (that is, came to the knowledge of heaven), , G L T Tr WH (
ejkoll.
hJ
yuchv
mou
ojpivsw
sou, ();
aiJ
a[gnoiaiv
hJmw'n
uJperhvnegkan
e{w"
tou'
oujranou', 1 Esdr. (74);
u{bri"
tev
bih
tev
oujranovn
iJkei, Homer Odyssey 15, 329; 17, 565). of persons, with the dative of the thing,
kollhvqhti
tw'/
a{rmati join thyself to etc. ; with the dative of person, to form an intimate connection with, enter into the closest relations with, unite oneself to (so the Epistle of Barnabas 10, 3f, 5, 8 also with
metav and the genitive of person, ibid. 10, 11; 19, 2. 6; Clement of Rome, , ; , ; , (cf. Lightfoot's note), 4):
th'/
gunaikiv, L T Tr WH;
th'/
povrnh, ();
tw'/
kurivw/, (; ); to join oneself to one as an associate, keep company witlb ; ; ; to follow one, be on his side, (; ; ); to join or attach oneself to a master or patron, ; with the dative of the thing, to give oneself steadfastly to, labor for (A. V. cleave to):
tw'/
ajgaqw'/, ,
ajgaqw'/,
krivsei
divkaia, the Epistle of Barnabas 20, 2;
th'/
eujlogiva, so cleave to as to share, Clement of Romans, ,. (Aeschylus Ag. 1566; Plato, Diodorus, Plutarch, others) (Compare:
proskollavw.)*