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# גְּבוּלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1367

**border** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

border [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1367/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּבוּלָה: n.f. border, boundary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1367/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. border, boundary—sf. גְּבֻלָתוֹ Is 28:25; Pl. abs. גְּבֻלֹת Nu 32:33, גְּבֻלוֹת Jb 24:2; cstr. גְּבוּלוֹת ψ 74:17, גְּבוּלֹת Is 10:13, גְּבֻלֹת Dt 32:8; sf. גְּבוּלֹתֶיהָ Jos 18:20; 19:49, גְבֻלֹתֶיהָ Nu 34:2, 12; border, boundary of the earth (poet.) ψ 74:17; of peoples Is 10:13 Dt 32:8 (poem); of land of Canaan Nu 34:2, 12 (P) Jos 19:49 (JE); of a tribe Jos 18:20 (P); of territory about cities Nu 32:33 (P?); of a piece of ground Jb 24:2; of barley-field Is 28:25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: borders (6); \[the\] borders (2); border (1).

## In the verses

[Job 24:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.2/#tree)

גְּבֻל֥וֹת יַשִּׂ֑יגוּ עֵ֥דֶר גָּ֝זְל֗וּ וַיִּרְעֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* borders people.reach flock\[s\] they.seize and they.have.pastured.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.

[Psalms 74:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.17/#tree)

אַתָּ֣ה הִ֭צַּבְתָּ כָּל־גְּבוּל֣וֹת אָ֑רֶץ קַ֥יִץ וָ֝חֹ֗רֶף אַתָּ֥ה יְצַרְתָּם׃

*Word for word:* you you.established all \[the\].borders of.\[the\].earth summer and winter you you formed.them

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; Thou hast made summer and winter.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1367.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1367/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).