To be ATTACHED to, to cling, to be bound by desire. Used of Shechem's longing for Dinah and, startlingly, of God's own inexplicable attachment to Israel ('YHVH did not chashaq you because you were more numerous,' Deuteronomy 7:7, now on these pages). Psalm 91:14 gives the reason God acts, and it is this verb rather than obedience or faith: 'because he has bound himself to me.' Warmer and more physical than the shelf's 'set his love upon me.' ⭐ Deuteronomy 10:15 is its second occurrence in this book and takes the FATHERS as its object, with the choosing following in a separate verb: he bound himself to them, and then chose their seed. ⚠ NWT 1984 and TNM 1987 are the tightest witnesses there ('get attached', «se apegó»), and both of their own revisions replace attachment with approach — 'draw close', «se acercó» — which is something a person can undo by stepping back. → first discussed at Psalms 91:14