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Joshua 15:5
“And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1366 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed
- Derivation
- or גְּבֻל; (shortened) from H1379 (גָּבַל);
- KJV renderings
- border, bound, coast, [idiom] great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- גְב֥וּל — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 241 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 10:19Genesis 23:17Genesis 47:21Exodus 7:27Exodus 10:4
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read גְּבוּל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.