Strong's Hebrew · H1379
H1379 gâbal
גָּבַל
gaw-bal'
to border
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gâbal appears 5 times in Scripture, in Exodus, Deuteronomy, Joshua and Zechariah. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to twist as a rope; to bound (as by a line)
In the King James Version
be border, set (bounds about).
Derivation
a primitive root; also as a denominative from H1366 (גְּבוּל)
Appears 5 times in Scripture
“On the east side the border was the Jordan. These were the borders around the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.”
“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.’””
“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 also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.”
“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.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
