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Border

גְּבוּלStrong’s H1366

gevul (ge-vul)

Appears in 196 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Gevul is the Hebrew word usually translated “border of”, “border” and “territory of”. It appears in 196 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.”
Genesis 10:19 KJV
Meaning
  1. Border, territoryborder · territory (enclosed within boundary) · region, territory (of darkness) (fig.)
How it's translated
  • border of 64
  • the border 40
  • territory of 24
  • territory your 13
  • territory their 11
  • the territory 7
  • territory its 7
  • in territory of 6

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Joshua 59
  • Ezekiel 34
  • Numbers 23
  • Deuteronomy 13
  • 1 Samuel 10
  • Exodus 7

25 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 196 verses, by book
2 Samuel 1
21:5
1 Kings 2
1:34:21
1 Chronicles 4
4:106:546:6621:12
2 Chronicles 2
9:2611:13
Job 1
38:20
Proverbs 3
15:2522:2823:10
Hosea 1
5:10
Joel 1
3:6
Amos 2
1:136:2
Obadiah 1
1:7
Micah 1
5:6
Zephaniah 1
2:8
Malachi 2
1:41:5
Hebrew dictionary

גְּבוּל gevul · border

: boundary 1) border, territory 1a) border 1b) territory (enclosed within boundary) 1c) region, territory (of darkness) (fig.) Also means: ge.vul (גְּבוּל ": area" H1366H)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “border” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BORD'ER, noun

The outer edge of any thing; the extreme part or surrounding line; the confine or exterior limit of a country, or of any region or tract of land; the exterior part or edge of a garment, or of the corol of plants; the rim or brim of a vessel, but not often applied to vessels; the exterior part of a garden, and hence a bank raised at the side of a garden, for the cultivation of flowers, and a row of plants; in short, the outer part or edge of things too numerous to be specified.

    All definitions and other forms of “border”

      BORD'ER, verb intransitive

      To confine; to touch at the edge, side or end; to be contiguous or adjacent; with on or upon; as, Connecticut on the north borders on or upon Massachusetts.

      1. To approach near to.

      BORD'ER, verb transitive

      To make a border; to adorn with a border of ornaments; as, to border a garment or a garden.

      1. To reach to; to touch at the edge or end; to confine upon; to be contiguous to.
      2. To confine within bounds; to limit. [Not used.]

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.