kollaō · cling to, join

What it means

kollaō (κολλάω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “cling to, join”.

Join, stick to, cling to someone or something.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To cling to someone, become closely bound to them.
2. To stick fast, like dust to the feet.
3. To heap up to the sky.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• join ×3
• joined ×2
• joins himself ×2
• associate with ×1
• attached himself ×1
• cling ×1
• clung ×1
• have piled up ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×2
• Acts×5
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 19:5

  and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

• Luke 10:11

  ‘Even the dust from your city that clung to our feet we wipe off against you; yet know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’

• Luke 15:15

  And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

• Acts 5:13

  But of the rest no one dared to join them, but the people were extolling them.

• Acts 8:29

  And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.”

• Acts 9:26

  And when he arrived in Jerusalem, he was trying to join the disciples; and all were afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

• Acts 10:28

  And he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner; but to me God showed that I should call no person profane or unclean.

• Acts 17:34

  But some men joined him and believed, among whom were also Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

• Romans 12:9

  Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

• 1 Corinthians 6:16

  Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For, it says, The two will become one flesh.

• 1 Corinthians 6:17

  But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with him.

• Revelation 18:5

  for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her wrongdoings.