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Lexicon :: Strong's H1366 - gᵊḇûl

Aa
גְּבוּל
Transliteration
gᵊḇûl
Pronunciation
gheb-ool'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 307a

Strong’s Definitions

גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl, gheb-ool'; or גְּבֻל gᵉbul; (shortened) from H1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed:—border, bound, coast, × great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 241x

The KJV translates Strong's H1366 in the following manner: border (158x), coast (69x), bound (5x), landmark (4x), space (2x), limit (1x), quarters (1x), non translated variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 241x
The KJV translates Strong's H1366 in the following manner: border (158x), coast (69x), bound (5x), landmark (4x), space (2x), limit (1x), quarters (1x), non translated variant (1x).

  1. border, territory

    1. border

    2. territory (enclosed within boundary)

    3. region, territory (of darkness) (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl, gheb-ool'; or גְּבֻל gᵉbul; (shortened) from H1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed:—border, bound, coast, × great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
STRONGS H1366: Abbreviations
גבול(ח) Joshua 15:47 Kt; read הַגָּדוֺל Vrss. Manuscripts compare Joshua 15:12.

גְּבוּל 240 noun masculineNumbers 34 border, boundary, territory (Late Hebrew id., Punic gubulim (plural, PlautPoen. i. 9) — גָּבוּל Genesis 10:19 + 168 times + Joshua 15:47 Kt (but read Qr גָּדוֺל); גְּבֻל Numbers 21:13 + 9 times; (both, in absolute & construct, e.g. absolute Numbers 22:36; Numbers 34:8, construct Genesis 10:19; 2 Samuel 21:5); suffix גְּבוּלִי 1 Chronicles 4:10, גְּבוּלְךָ Exodus 7:27, גְבֻלְךָ Exodus 23:31 + 3 times, etc.; plural (8 times) only suffix גְּבוּלֶיךָ Jeremiah 15:13; Jeremiah 17:3, etc.; —
1. border, boundary,
a. of a land or people: Canaanites Genesis 10:19 (J), Edom Numbers 20:23; Joshua 15:1, 21 (all P) compare Obadiah 7, Amorites Numbers 21:13 (E) Joshua 13:4 (D) compare Joshua 12:5 (D) Judges 1:36, Moab Numbers 21:13, 15; Numbers 22:36 (E) Numbers 33:44 (P) Deuteronomy 2:18; Judges 11:18 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 3:21; Isaiah 15:8, Ammon Numbers 21:24 (E) Deuteronomy 3:16; Joshua 12:2; Joshua 13:10 (all D) Amos 1:3, Bashan Joshua 12:4 (D), Egypt 1 Kings 5:1 = 2 Chronicles 9:26; Isaiah 19:19; especially of promised land Exodus 23:31; Exodus 34:24 (JE) Numbers 34:3+ + 13 times Numbers 34 (all P) Deuteronomy 11:24; Deuteronomy 12:20; Deuteronomy 16:4; Joshua 1:4 (D), compare Ezekiel 45:1 + 10 times Ezekiel 45-48; also of Israel 2 Kings 14:25; Amos 6:2; Malachi 1:5.
b. boundary of smaller divisions, e.g. Geshurites Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5; Joshua 13:11 (all D), compare Joshua 16:2, 3(J) Joshua 19:12 (P); especially of tribes of Israel Deuteronomy 3:16, 17; Joshua 13:30 (all D) Joshua 13:16 + 60 times Joshua 13-19 (P); — Joshua 15:47 read גדול see above; Joshua 22:25 (P) & Joshua 17:8; Joshua 18:11; Joshua 24:30 (JE), compare 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 6:51; 2 Chronicles 11:13; Ezekiel 48:1 + 15 times Ezekiel 48 (including Ezekiel 48:22; Ezekiel 48:22 q. strike out Co); — in 1 Samuel 13:18 read for גְּבוּל, הַגֶּבַע Greek Version of the LXX We Dr.
†c. boundary of territory belonging to an individual, — of field, piece of ground, etc. Genesis 23:17 (P) Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17; Joshua 24:30 (E) = Judges 2:9; 1 Chronicles 4:10; Proverbs 15:25; Proverbs 22:28; Proverbs 23:10; Hosea 5:10.
†d. border of stream Numbers 22:36.
†e. limit to waters of deep Psalm 104:9 compare Jeremiah 5:22.
†f. a concrete object marking limit,
(α) barrier in Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 40:12 (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Co) Ezekiel 40:12;
(β) border of altar Ezekiel 43:13, 17, 20;
(γ) surrounding wall of restored Zion Isaiah 54:12 (so Greek Version of the LXX Ew Kn Che; De Brd territory, Di undecided).
†2. territory (enclosed within boundary),
a. of land or people Genesis 47:21 (J) Exodus 7:27 (P) Exodus 10:4, 14 (|| ארץ) Exodus 10:19; Exodus 13:7 (all J), Numbers 20:16, 17, 21; Numbers 21:22 (E; || ארץ) = Judges 11:20; Numbers 21:23 (E) Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 19:3 (אַרְצְךָ גּ׳) Deuteronomy 19:8; Deuteronomy 28:40; Joshua 18:5 (twice in verse) (E) Judges 11:22; Judges 19:29; 2 Samuel 21:5; 1 Kings 1:3; 2 Kings 10:32; 1 Chronicles 21:12 (|| ארץ) Psalm 105:31 (= ארץ in || Ezekiel 8:16, 17) Psalm 8:33; Psalm 147:14; Jeremiah 31:17; Ezekiel 11:10, 11; Joel 3:6; Zephaniah 2:8.
b. territory of a city (or limit of such territory) Numbers 35:26, 27; Joshua 13:26; Judges 1:18 (3 times in verse); Ezekiel 47:16 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 47:17 (twice in verse) (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co) Ezekiel 48:1; Amos 6:2.
†c. territory about Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 43:12.
†d. plural in like sense (only use of plural), of land Micah 5:5; Isaiah 60:18 (|| ארץ) Jeremiah 15:13; Jeremiah 17:13, of city 1 Samuel 5:6; 2 Kings 15:16; 2 Kings 18:8; so Ezekiel 27:4 of Tyre.
†e. figurative territory (region) of darkness Job 38:20; territory of wickedness Malachi 1:4 (of Edom); territory of his holiness Psalm 78:54 (of Canaan).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:19; 10:19; 10:19; 23:17; 47:21

Exodus

10:4; 10:14; 10:19; 13:7; 23:31; 23:31; 34:24

Numbers

20:16; 20:17; 20:21; 20:23; 21:13; 21:13; 21:13; 21:15; 21:22; 21:23; 21:24; 22:36; 22:36; 22:36; 33:44; 34; 34; 34:3; 34:8; 35:26; 35:27

Deuteronomy

2:4; 2:18; 3:14; 3:16; 3:16; 3:17; 11:24; 12:20; 16:4; 19:3; 19:8; 19:14; 27:17; 28:40

Joshua

1:4; 12:2; 12:4; 12:5; 12:5; 13; 13:4; 13:10; 13:11; 13:16; 13:26; 13:30; 14; 15; 15:1; 15:12; 15:21; 15:47; 15:47; 15:47; 16; 16:2; 16:3; 17; 17:8; 18; 18:5; 18:11; 19; 19:12; 22:25; 24:30; 24:30

Judges

1:18; 1:36; 2:9; 11:18; 11:20; 11:22; 19:29

1 Samuel

5:6; 13:18

2 Samuel

21:5; 21:5

1 Kings

1:3; 5:1

2 Kings

3:21; 10:32; 14:25; 15:16; 18:8

1 Chronicles

4:10; 4:10; 6:39; 6:51; 21:12

2 Chronicles

9:26; 11:13

Job

38:20

Psalms

78:54; 104:9; 105:31; 147:14

Proverbs

15:25; 22:28; 23:10

Isaiah

15:8; 19:19; 54:12; 60:18

Jeremiah

5:22; 15:13; 15:13; 17:3; 17:13; 31:17

Ezekiel

8:16; 8:17; 11:10; 11:11; 27:4; 40:12; 40:12; 43:12; 43:13; 43:17; 43:20; 45; 45:1; 46; 47; 47:16; 47:17; 48; 48; 48:1; 48:1; 48:22; 48:22

Hosea

5:10

Joel

3:6

Amos

1:3; 6:2; 6:2

Obadiah

1:7

Micah

5:5

Zephaniah

2:8

Malachi

1:4; 1:5

H1366

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Strong's Number H1366 matches the Hebrew גְּבוּל (gᵊḇûl),
which occurs 241 times in 196 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 10:19–Jos 12:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:19 - Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:17 - So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:21 - And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:2 - And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your land:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:7 - Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 - For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:16 - And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - Let us now go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, till we have gone past the limits of your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:21 - So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:23 - And at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of division between Moab and the Amorites:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:15 - The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and touching the edge of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23 - And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:24 - But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:36 - Now Balak, hearing that Balaam had come, went to the chief town of Moab, on the edge of the Arnon, in the farthest part of the land, for the purpose of meeting him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:44 - And they went on from Oboth, and put up their tents in Iye-abarim at the edge of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from the east end of the Salt Sea,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:4 - And round to the south of the slope of Akrabbim, and on to Zin: and its direction will be south of Kadesh-barnea, and it will go as far as Hazar-addar and on to Azmon:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:5 - And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:6 - And for your limit on the west you will have the Great Sea and its edge: this will be your limit on the west.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:7 - And your limit on the north will be the line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:8 - And from Mount Hor the line will go in the direction of Hamath; the farthest point of it will be at Zedad:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:9 - And the limit will go on to Ziphron, with its farthest point at Hazar-enan: this will be your limit on the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:10 - And on the east, your limit will be marked out from Hazar-enan to Shepham,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:11 - Going down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain, and on as far as the east side of the sea of Chinnereth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12 - And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4 - And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:18 - You are about to go by Ar, the limit of the country of Moab;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:14 - Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob, as far as the country of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, naming it, Bashan, Havvoth-Jair after himself, as it is to this day.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:16 - And the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok which is the limit of the country of the children of Ammon, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 - As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place where you put your foot will be yours: from the waste land and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates as far as the Great Sea, will be the limits of your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:20 - When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:4 - For seven days let no leaven be used through all your land; and nothing of the flesh which is put to death in the evening of the first day is to be kept through the night till morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3 - You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8 - And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:17 - Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40 - Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea, in the west, will be your country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was living in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, as far as the river Jabbok, the limits of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:4 - And the land of Og, king of Bashan, of the rest of the Rephaim, who was living at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:5 - Ruling in the mountain of Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, as far as the limits of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, to the land of Sihon, king of Heshbon.

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