גְּבוּלgᵉbûwl
(ה)גבול: read הַגָּדוֺל (Joshua 15:47; Joshua 15:12)
Pronunciation: gheb-ool' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1366
Meanings
גְּבוּל: border, boundary, territory
1. border, boundary
b. boundary (Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5; Joshua 13:11)
c. boundary (Genesis 23:17; Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17)
d. border (Numbers 22:36)
e. limit (Psalms 104:9; Jeremiah 5:22)
f. a concrete object marking limit (Ezekiel 40:12; Ezekiel 43:13; Ezekiel 43:17)
2. territory, (enclosed within boundary)
b. territory (Numbers 35:26; Numbers 35:27; Joshua 13:26)
c. territory (Ezekiel 43:12)
e. territory (Job 38:20; Malachi 1:4; Psalms 78:54)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 240 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 10:19 and the territory of Canaan extended from Sidon in the north to Gerar and Gaza in the south, and east as far as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, near Lasha.
- Genesis 23:17 So Abraham bought the plot of land belonging to Ephron at Machpelah, near Mamre. This included the field itself, the cave that was in it, and all the surrounding trees.
- Genesis 47:21 As for the people, he made them all slaves, from one end of Egypt to the other.
- Exodus 8:2 If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs across your entire land.
- Exodus 10:4 If you refuse, watch out! For tomorrow I will bring a swarm of locusts on your country.
- Exodus 10:14 And the locusts swarmed over the whole land of Egypt, settling in dense swarms from one end of the country to the other. It was the worst locust plague in Egyptian history, and there has never been another one like it.
See every passage
- Genesis 10:19, 23:17, 47:21
- Exodus 8:2, 10:4, 10:14, 10:19, 13:7, 23:31, 34:24
- Numbers 20:16, 20:17, 20:21, 20:23, 21:13, 21:15, 21:22, 21:23, 21:24, 22:36, 33:44, 34:3, 34:4, 34:5, 34:6, 34:7, 34:8, 34:9, 34:10, 34:11, 34:12, 35:26, 35:27
- Deuteronomy 2:4, 2:18, 3:14, 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, 13:3, 13:4, 13:10, 13:11, 13:16, 13:23, 13:25, 13:26, 13:27, 13:30, 15:1, 15:2, 15:4, 15:5, 15:6, 15:7, 15:8, 15:9, 15:10, 15:11, 15:12, 15:21, 15:47, 16:2, 16:3, 16:5, 16:6, 16:8, 17:7, 17:8, 17:9, 17:10, 18:5, 18:11, 18:12, 18:13, 18:14, 18:15, 18:16, 18:19, 19:10, 19:11, 19:12, 19:14, 19:18, 19:22, 19:25, 19:29, 19:33, 19:34, 19:41, 19:46, 19:47, 22:25, 24:30
- Judges 1:18, 1:36, 2:9, 11:18, 11:20, 11:22, 19:29
- 1 Samuel 5:6, 6:9, 6:12, 7:13, 7:14, 10:2, 11:3, 11:7, 13:18, 27:1
- 2 Samuel 21:5
- 1 Kings 1:3, 4:21
- 2 Kings 3:21, 10:32, 14:25, 15:16, 18:8
- 1 Chronicles 4:10, 6:54, 6:66, 21:12
- 2 Chronicles 9:26, 11:13
- Job 38:20
- Psalms 78:54, 104:9, 105:31, 105:33, 147:14
- Proverbs 15:25, 22:28, 23:10
- Isaiah 15:8, 19:19, 54:12, 60:18
- Jeremiah 5:22, 15:13, 17:3, 31:17
- Ezekiel 11:10, 11:11, 27:4, 29:10, 40:12, 43:12, 43:13, 43:17, 43:20, 45:1, 45:7, 47:13, 47:15, 47:16, 47:17, 47:18, 47:20, 48:1, 48:2, 48:3, 48:4, 48:5, 48:6, 48:7, 48:8, 48:12, 48:13, 48:21, 48:22, 48:24, 48:25, 48:26, 48:27, 48:28
- Hosea 5:10
- Joel 3:6
- Amos 1:13, 6:2
- Obadiah 1:7
- Micah 5:6
- Zephaniah 2:8
- Malachi 1:4, 1:5
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).