גָּבַל
ga.val
“to border”
Definition
properly, to twist as arope; to bound (as by a line)
a primitive root; also as a denominative from H1366 (גְּבוּל)
- to bound, border 1a) (Qal) to bound, border 1b) (Hiphil) to set bounds, set bounds for
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
גָּבַל appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ‘Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”
On the east side the border was the Jordan.These were the borders around the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
and also against Hamath,which borders it,as well as Tyre and Sidon,though they are very shrewd.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.