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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

primarily, "to glue or cement together," then, generally, "to unite, to join firmly," is used in the Passive Voice signifying "to join oneself to, to be joined to," Luke 15:15; Acts 5:13; 8:29; 9:26; 10:28 , RV (AV, "to keep company with"); 1 Corinthians 6:16,17; elsewhere, "to cleave to," Luke 10:11; Acts 17:34; Romans 12:9 . See CLEAVE.

"to stick to," a strengthened form of No. 1, with pros, "to," intensive, is used in the Passive Voice, reflexively, in a metaphorical sense, with the meanings (a) "to join oneself to," in Acts 5:36; (b) "to cleave to," of the husband with regard to the wife, Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7; in Ephesians 5:31 , RV, "shall cleave to" (AV, "shall be joined to"). See CLEAVE.

"to yoke together" (sun, "with," zugos, "a yoke"), is used metaphorically of union in wedlock, in Matthew 19:6; Mark 10:9 .

"to border on," is used of a house as being contiguous with a synagogue, in Acts 18:7 , "joined hard to."

Notes: (1) In 1 Corinthians 1:10 , katartizo, "to render complete, to perfect" (kata, "down," intensive, and artios, "complete, jointed"), "to restore," is translated "be perfectly joined together," AV (RV, "be perfected together"); see FIT. (2) In Ephesians 4:16 , sunarmologeo, "to fit" or "frame together," is translated "fitly joined together," AV (RV, "fitly framed ... together"); cp. Ephesians 2:21 .