gĕbûl (גְּבוּל) — Hebrew word meaning “border”

גְּבוּל

gĕbûl

border

Strong's H1366NounHebrewTWOT 307a

גְּבוּל (gĕbûl) is a Hebrew noun meaning border. It appears 241 times in 25 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1366).

Also rendered

boundary

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 307a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 307a)border, boundary, territory; cord, twisted; bound, coast, landmark, limit, quarter, space

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

גְּבוּל noun, masculine: border, boundary, territory

1.border, boundary
2.territory (enclosed within boundary)

Strong's H1366 גְּבוּל: properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed
KJV:border, bound, coast, × great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 307: גָּבַל gābal — bound, border; set bounds for; twist; set

See it in Scripture

Genesis 10:19 Exodus 13:7 Numbers 20:16

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