gaval (to border)

Meaning

To bound, border(Qal) to bound, border · (Hiphil) to set bounds, set bounds for

How it's translated

it borders 2
and you will set a boundary for 1
set a boundary for 1
they set bounds 1

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

Where it's used most

Exodus 2
Deuteronomy 1
Joshua 1
Zechariah 1

4 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

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.

Hebrew dictionary

גָּבַל gaval · to border

1) to bound, border 1a) (Qal) to bound, border 1b) (Hiphil) to set bounds, set bounds for

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.