taar (to border) · Rightly

Meaning

(Qal) to be drawn, incline, delineate, extendmeaning uncertain
(Piel) to draw in outline, trace out

How it's translated

and it turns 5
he outlines it 2
which is turned 1

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

Where it's used most

Joshua 5
Isaiah 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Joshua 15:11And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
Joshua 18:14And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
Joshua 18:17And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
Joshua 19:13And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;
Isaiah 44:13The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

Hebrew dictionary

תָּאַר taar · to border

1) (Qal) to be drawn, incline, delineate, extend 1a) meaning uncertain

תָּאַר taar · to delimit

(Piel) to draw in outline, trace out

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.