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 |
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The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
Read word by wordMe-jarkon, and Rakkon, including the territory across from Joppa.
Read word by word(Later, when the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and fought against Leshem, captured it, and put it to the sword. So they took possession of Leshem, settled there, and renamed it after their father Dan.)
Read word by wordFor the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the LORD!’ So your descendants could cause ours to stop fearing the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Read word by wordAnd Judah also captured Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron—each with its territory.
Read word by wordAnd the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.
Read word by wordThey buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Read word by wordThen Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.
Read word by wordBut Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.
Read word by wordseizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
Read word by wordWhen he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
Read word by wordNow the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
Read word by wordbut keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
Read word by wordAnd the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
Read word by wordSo the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
Read word by wordThe cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.
Read word by wordWhen you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
Read word by word“Hold off for seven days,” replied the elders of Jabesh, “and let us send messengers throughout Israel. If there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”
Read word by wordHe took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the land of Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not march behind Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out together as one man.
Read word by wordanother toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.
Read word by wordDavid, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
Read word by wordAnd they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
Read word by wordThen they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
Read word by wordAnd Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.1
Now all the Moabites had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. So all who could bear arms, young and old, were summoned and stationed at the border.
Read word by wordIn those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory
Read word by wordThis Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
Read word by wordAt that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
Read word by wordHe defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.
Read word by wordAnd Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.
Read word by wordNow these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 6.39
And some of the clans of the Kohathites were given cities from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 6.51
between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
Read word by wordHe reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
Read word by wordMoreover, the priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel stood with Rehoboam.
Read word by wordso you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
Read word by wordHe brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
Read word by wordYou set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
Read word by wordHe spoke, and insects swarmed—gnats throughout their country.
Read word by wordHe struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.
Read word by wordHe makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat.
Read word by wordThe LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
Read word by wordDo not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
Read word by wordDo not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Read word by wordFor their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.
Read word by wordIn that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near her border.
Read word by wordI will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
Read word by wordNo longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
Read word by wordDo you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
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