Hebrew verb · H1379
גָּבַל
gabalgaw-bal'
to border
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâbal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1379is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1379
properly, to twist as arope
The King James renders it: be border, set (bounds about).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gabal is rendered "to border". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 19:12And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 19:12וְהִגְבַּלְתָּ֤
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it borders2
- and you will set a boundary for1
- set a boundary for1
- they set bounds1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- גָּבְל֖וּ1
- הַגְבֵּ֥ל1
- וְהִגְבַּלְתָּ֤1
- יִגְבֹּל־1
- תִּגְבָּל־1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vhq2ms1Hc/Vhq2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhv2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
Exodus
two uses
And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
- וְהִגְבַּלְתָּ֤vehigbaltaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will set a boundary for
But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ‘Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”
- הַגְבֵּ֥לhagbelverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: set a boundary for
Deuteronomy
one use
You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- גָּבְל֖וּgaveluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they set bounds
Joshua
one use
On the east side the border was the Jordan. These were the borders around the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
- יִגְבֹּל־yigbol-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it borders
Zechariah
one use
and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.
- תִּגְבָּל־tigbol-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it borders
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.