גְּבוּל (ge.vul) means “border: boundary” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: gheb-ool' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
גְּבוּל · ge.vul · border: boundary
: boundary 1) border, territory 1a) border 1b) territory (enclosed within boundary) 1c) region, territory (of darkness) (fig.) Also means: ge.vul (גְּבוּל ": area" H1366H)
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גְּבוּל · ge.vul · border: area
: area 1) border, territory 1a) border 1b) territory (enclosed within boundary) 1c) region, territory (of darkness) (fig.)
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or גְּבֻל; (shortened) from H1379 (גָּבַל); properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed
KJV glosses: border, bound, coast, [idiom] great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the border | 34 |
| the territory | 24 |
| border | 15 |
| your territory | 7 |
| their territory | 6 |
| your borders | 5 |
| boundary | 4 |
| territory | 4 |
| then the border | 4 |
| boundary stone | 3 |
| it | 3 |
| on the border | 3 |
| the borders | 3 |
| the boundaries | 3 |
| the land | 3 |
| and | 2 |
| and the border | 2 |
| far as the border | 2 |
| from there the border | 2 |
| in the land | 2 |
| their border | 2 |
| then | 2 |
| then it | 2 |
| through his territory | 2 |
| to the border | 2 |
| with a rim | 2 |
| a border | 1 |
| a boundary | 1 |
| along the border | 1 |
| and its borders | 1 |
| and the borders | 1 |
| and the coastline | 1 |
| and the territory | 1 |
| are the boundaries | 1 |
| as its border | 1 |
| as the boundary | 1 |
| at your borders | 1 |
| border started | 1 |
| bordered it | 1 |
| borders | 1 |
| boundary marker | 1 |
| boundary stones | 1 |
| but the border | 1 |
| down the border | 1 |
| for their territory | 1 |
| her border | 1 |
| in | 1 |
| into our borders | 1 |
| into your territory | 1 |
| is the border | 1 |
| is their territory | 1 |
| its border | 1 |
| its territory | 1 |
| its vicinity | 1 |
| land | 1 |
| later when the territory | 1 |
| my territory | 1 |
| now the border | 1 |
| of his territory | 1 |
| of the great | 1 |
| of their country | 1 |
| of your territory | 1 |
| part | 1 |
| shall be the boundary | 1 |
| so the border | 1 |
| than yours | 1 |
| the bank | 1 |
| the border between | 1 |
| the boundary | 1 |
| the coastline | 1 |
| the limits | 1 |
| the rim | 1 |
| the surrounding territory | 1 |
| the territories | 1 |
| their borders | 1 |
| their country | 1 |
| their districts | 1 |
| their homeland | 1 |
| through the territory | 1 |
| through their territory | 1 |
| to its homeland | 1 |
| to the borders | 1 |
| to their own land | 1 |
| tract of land | 1 |
| vicinity | 1 |
| was a wall | 1 |
| was its border | 1 |
| was the border | 1 |
| was the coastline | 1 |
| where it | 1 |
| will be the boundary | 1 |
| with the territory | 1 |
| within your borders | 1 |
| your land | 1 |
| your walls | 1 |
| your whole country | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and the border | 39 |
| border | 15 |
| the border | 14 |
| and by the border | 12 |
| and the coast | 12 |
| the coast | 6 |
| thy borders | 5 |
| and their border | 4 |
| and their coast | 4 |
| in the border | 4 |
| landmark | 4 |
| of the border | 4 |
| unto the border | 4 |
| coast | 3 |
| from the border | 3 |
| throughout all the coasts | 3 |
| with the coast | 3 |
| and the coasts | 2 |
| between the border | 2 |
| by the coast | 2 |
| him in the border | 2 |
| in all the borders | 2 |
| in all the coasts | 2 |
| in their coasts | 2 |
| of their coasts | 2 |
| the borders | 2 |
| the bound | 2 |
| through his border | 2 |
| to the border | 2 |
| you in the border | 2 |
| a border | 1 |
| a bound | 1 |
| against their border | 1 |
| all the coasts | 1 |
| all thy borders | 1 |
| and all thy borders | 1 |
| and divide the coasts | 1 |
| and the borders | 1 |
| and the great | 1 |
| and the space | 1 |
| and to the border | 1 |
| and unto the border | 1 |
| and upon the border | 1 |
| and your border | 1 |
| by the border | 1 |
| even in all thy borders | 1 |
| even the border | 1 |
| even unto the border | 1 |
| even unto the borders | 1 |
| for a border | 1 |
| for the border | 1 |
| from their border | 1 |
| her into all the coasts | 1 |
| in all their coasts | 1 |
| in any of the coasts | 1 |
| in their coast | 1 |
| into the coast | 1 |
| into thy coast | 1 |
| is his border | 1 |
| it to the bound | 1 |
| me any more in any coast | 1 |
| my coast | 1 |
| not within the border | 1 |
| of his own coast | 1 |
| of that coast | 1 |
| of the borders | 1 |
| of the coasts | 1 |
| of their border | 1 |
| of thy border | 1 |
| on the border | 1 |
| or their border | 1 |
| shall be your coast | 1 |
| shall your coast | 1 |
| than your border | 1 |
| the space | 1 |
| the whole limit | 1 |
| their border | 1 |
| them in all the coasts | 1 |
| them the border | 1 |
| them to the border | 1 |
| them unto the border | 1 |
| therein and the coasts | 1 |
| thereof and the border | 1 |
| through his coast | 1 |
| through the coast | 1 |
| throughout all thy borders | 1 |
| throughout all thy coasts | 1 |
| thy border | 1 |
| thy bounds | 1 |
| thy coast | 1 |
| to him out of all their coasts | 1 |
| to the borders | 1 |
| to the coast | 1 |
| to their own border | 1 |
| toward the coast | 1 |
| unto all the coasts | 1 |
| unto the borders | 1 |
| unto the coast | 1 |
| unto the coasts | 1 |
| upon the border | 1 |
| with the border | 1 |
| with thee in all thy coast | 1 |
| with thee in all thy quarters | 1 |
| within our borders | 1 |
| within thy borders | 1 |
| without the border | 1 |
Page 1 of 4. 196 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Read word by wordSo Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over
Read word by wordand Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
Read word by wordBut if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 7.27
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
Read word by wordThe locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.
Read word by wordAnd the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.
Read word by wordUnleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.
Read word by wordAnd I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
Read word by wordFor I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.
Read word by wordand when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
Read word by wordPlease let us pass through your land. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
Read word by wordSo Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.
Read word by wordAnd at Mount Hor, near the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Read word by wordFrom there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.
Read word by wordeven the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”
Read word by word“Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”
Read word by wordBut Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
Read word by wordAnd Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.
Read word by wordWhen Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory.
Read word by wordThey set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab.
Read word by wordYour southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
Read word by wordcross south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and go south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon,
Read word by wordwhere it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.
Read word by wordYour western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.
Read word by wordYour northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,
Read word by wordand from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
Read word by wordcontinue to Ziphron, and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
Read word by wordAnd your eastern border will run straight from Hazar-enan to Shepham,
Read word by wordthen go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
Read word by wordThen the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”
Read word by wordBut if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
Read word by wordand the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,
Read word by wordand command the people: ‘You will pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.
Read word by word“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.
Read word by wordJair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.
Read word by wordand to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.
Read word by wordThe Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
Read word by wordEvery place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
Read word by wordWhen the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.
Read word by wordNo leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.
Read word by wordYou are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
Read word by wordAnd if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by word‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Read word by wordYou will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
Read word by wordYour territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
Read word by wordSihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,
Read word by wordAnd Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
Read word by wordHe ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
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