Border
גְּבוּלָהStrong’s H1367gevulah (ge-vu-lah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gevulah is the Hebrew word usually translated “borders its”, “boundaries of” and “territories”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.”
Meaning
- Border, boundary
How it's translated
- to borders its 4
- boundaries of 3
- with territories 1
- boundaries 1
- territory its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 3
- Joshua 2
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 34:2Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)
- Numbers 34:12And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
- Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
- 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.
- Joshua 19:49When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
- Job 24:2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
גְּבוּלָה gevulah · border
border, boundary
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.
- 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.
- To reach to; to touch at the edge or end; to confine upon; to be contiguous to.
- 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.