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 4 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.
Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
Read word by wordO My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
Read word by wordSo there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
Read word by wordYou will fall by the sword, and I will judge you even to the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Read word by wordThe city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat within it. I will judge you even to the borders of Israel.
Read word by wordYour borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.
Read word by wordtherefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.
Read word by wordIn front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.
Read word by wordThis is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.
Read word by wordThese are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
Read word by wordThe ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”
Read word by wordYou are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.
Read word by word“When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you are to set aside a portion for the LORD, a holy portion of the land 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide. This entire tract of land will be holy.
Read word by wordNow the prince will have the area bordering each side of the area formed by the holy district and the property of the city, extending westward from the western side and eastward from the eastern side, running lengthwise from the western boundary to the eastern boundary and parallel to one of the tribal portions.
Read word by wordThis is what the Lord GOD says: “These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall receive two portions.
Read word by wordThis shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side it will extend from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon through Lebo-hamath to Zedad,
Read word by wordBerothah, and Sibraim (which is on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.
Read word by wordSo the border will run from the Sea to Hazar-enan, along the northern border of Damascus, with the territory of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.
Read word by wordOn the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the eastern boundary.
Read word by wordAnd on the west side, the Great Sea will be the boundary up to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This will be the western boundary.
Read word by word“Now these are the names of the tribes: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion bordering the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath and running on to Hazar-enan on the border of Damascus with Hamath to the north, and extending from the east side to the west side.
Read word by wordAsher will have one portion bordering the territory of Dan from east to west.
Read word by wordNaphtali will have one portion bordering the territory of Asher from east to west.
Read word by wordManasseh will have one portion bordering the territory of Naphtali from east to west.
Read word by wordEphraim will have one portion bordering the territory of Manasseh from east to west.
Read word by wordReuben will have one portion bordering the territory of Ephraim from east to west.
Read word by wordJudah will have one portion bordering the territory of Reuben from east to west.
Read word by wordBordering the territory of Judah, from east to west, will be the portion you are to set apart. It will be 25,000 cubits wide, and the length of a tribal portion from east to west. In the center will be the sanctuary.
Read word by wordIt will be a special portion for them set apart from the land, a most holy portion adjacent to the territory of the Levites.
Read word by wordBordering the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide. The whole length will be 25,000 cubits, and the width 10,000 cubits.
Read word by wordThe remaining area on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city will belong to the prince. He will own the land adjacent to the tribal portions, extending eastward from the 25,000 cubits of the holy district toward the eastern border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the western border. And in the center of them will be the holy portion and the sanctuary of the temple.
Read word by wordSo the Levitical property and the city property will lie in the center of the area belonging to the prince—the area between the borders of Judah and Benjamin.
Read word by wordSimeon will have one portion bordering the territory of Benjamin from east to west.
Read word by wordIssachar will have one portion bordering the territory of Simeon from east to west.
Read word by wordZebulun will have one portion bordering the territory of Issachar from east to west.
Read word by wordAnd Gad will have one portion bordering the territory of Zebulun from east to west.
Read word by wordThe southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.
Read word by wordThe princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.
Read word by wordYou sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.6
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
Read word by wordCross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?
Read word by wordAll the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.
Read word by wordAnd they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the blade drawn. So He will deliver us when Assyria invades our land and marches into our borders.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.5
“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
Read word by wordThough Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.
Read word by wordYou will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’”
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