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# גָּבַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1379

**bound** — used 5 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

bound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1379/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּבַל: vb.denom. bound, border [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1379/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. bound, border— Pf. גָּֽבְלוּ Dt 19:14; Impf. 3 ms. יִגְבּוֹל Jos 18:20, 3 fs. תִּגְבָּל־ Zc 9:2;—bound, border, c. acc. Jos 18:20 (P); c. בְּ border upon, adjoin Zc 9:2; trans. set bounds Dt 19:14 (c. acc. cogn.) Pf. 2 ms. set bounds for, c. acc. וְהִגְבַּלְתָּ֫ Ex 19:12; Imv. id. הַגְבֵּל v 23 (both JE), + Pt. מַגְבִּיל Ez 47:18 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 Co.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[which\] it borders (1); it borders (1); set bounds for (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 9:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.2/#tree)

וְגַם־חֲמָ֖ת תִּגְבָּל־בָּ֑הּ צֹ֣ר וְצִיד֔וֹן כִּ֥י חָֽכְמָ֖ה מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and also Hamath \[which\].it.borders on it Tyre and Sidon (dm) it.is.wise exceedingly

*JPS 1917:* And Hamath also shall border thereon; Tyre and Zidon, for she is very wise.

[Joshua 18:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.20/#tree)

וְהַיַּרְדֵּ֥ן יִגְבֹּל־אֹת֖וֹ לִפְאַת־קֵ֑דְמָה זֹ֡את נַחֲלַת֩ בְּנֵ֨י בִנְיָמִ֧ן לִגְבֽוּלֹתֶ֛יהָ סָבִ֖יב לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the Jordan it.borders it to.\[the\] side of eastward this \[was\].the.inheritance of.the.descendants of.Benjamin to borders its around to clans their

*JPS 1917:* And the Jordan was to be the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders thereof round about, according to their families.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1379.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1379/): 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).