גְּבוּלָה
gᵉbûwlâh · H1367 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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boundary, territory
A set of limits that separates part of a whole from other parts, with focus either on the limits itself or on the area or object surrounded by it
ExamplesNumbers 32:33 So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad, the sons of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Joseph’s son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their territories, the cities of the surrounding land.
Numbers 34:2 “Command the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance, that is, the land of Canaan according to its borders.
Numbers 34:12 ‘And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its termination shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders on all sides.’”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
9 occurrences in 5 groups
- הּher 4
- עַםpeople 2
- עִירcity, town 1
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
- הוּhis 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- נָצַבto stand 2
- נָשַׂגto overtake, to catch up with, to afford 1
- סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 6
- בin/on/with 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ὅριον hórion · G3725 · region, territory, land
- Greek ὅριον serves as the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew גְּבוּלָה in LXX contexts, both denoting territorial boundaries, borders, and delimited regions with essentially identical semantic scope.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Non-Whole002003001021
- גְּבוּלָה likewise denotes a border or territorial boundary, as in the borders of the land of Canaan described in Numbers 34:2 and 34:12.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1367. gebulah [גְּבוּלָה] noun feminine border, boundary — suffix גְּבֻלָתוֺ Isa 28:25;…
[גְּבוּלָה] noun feminine border, boundary — suffix גְּבֻלָתוֺ Isa 28:25; Plural absolute גְּבֻלֹת Num 32:33, גְּבֻלוֺת Job 24:2; construct גְּבוּלוֺת Psa 74:17, גְּבוּלֹת Isa 10:18, גְּבֻלֹת Deu 32:8; suffix גְּבוּלֹתֶיהָ Jos 18:20; Jos 19:49, גְבֻלֹתֶיהָ Num 34:2, Num 34:12; — 1 border, boundary of the earth (poetry) Psa 74:17; of peoples Isa 10:13; Deu 32:8 (poem); of land of Canaan Num 34:2, Num 34:12 (P) Jos 19:49 (JE); of a tribe Jos 18:20 (P); of territory about cities Num 32:33 (P?); of piece of ground Job 24:2; of barley-field Isa 28:25.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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