Strong’s H1379 · Hebrew
גָּבַל
gâbal · gaw-bal'
Origin a primitive root; also as a denominative from גְּבוּל (H1366)
Meaning properly, to twist as arope; to bound (as by a line)
In the King James Version be border, set (bounds about).
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Exodus 19:12And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
- Exodus 19:23And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
- Deuteronomy 19:14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
- Joshua 18:20And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
- Zechariah 9:2And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.