גְּבַל
Gebal
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1380 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
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“Gebal” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name גבל (Gᵉbal). It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Ezekiel. It occurs only once, in Ezekiel 27:9. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1380 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Gebal 1×
- American Standard Version: Men of gebal 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gebal 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Byblos 1×
King James Version Public Domain
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American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Gebal = "mountain"
- a maritime town of Phoenicia near Tyre (modern 'Jebeil') known to the Greeks as 'Byblus'
Word origin
n.pr.loc. maritime city on the Pheuician coast Ez 27:9; (Ph. גבל = Byblus (Sm Di Jos 13:5); in Assyrian Gubli COTGloss.); mod. Jebeil BdPal 358; v. also FurrerZPV viii. 20.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גבל (gâbal) (H1379) — to border.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גָּבַל
- r.; v. גבב) [to give a rounded shape,] to to knead, stamp. Sabb. XXIV, 3 you may put water into the bran (on the Sabbath) אבל לא גוֹבְלִין but must not mix it to a mass. Tosef. Maasr. III, 13 גובל עיסתו he kneads his dough. Lev. R. s. 29 בד׳ גְּבָלוֹ (Pesik. Baḥod. p. 150ᵇ גִּיבְּלוֹ) on the fourth day He formed the dust into a mass.
- same. Y. Ter. V, 43ᶜ bot. הפריש ואח׳'כ גי׳ he set apart (the T’rumah) and then made the dough. Ib. מיגבול חמש (read מְגַבֵּל). Taan. 10ᵃ שמְגַ׳ את הגבינה that forms a cheese. Ib. 19ᵇ שמג׳ את הטיט that stamps clay; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְגוּבָּל. Ib. מ׳ יפה a thoroughly kneaded mass.
- to be kneaded. Ib. אינו מִתְגַּבֵּל יפה is not thoroughly kneaded.
גְּבַל
- 1. same. Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵇ bot. ההן דִּגְבַל כ׳ (or דְּגַבַּל) he who kneads lime dust. Gitt. 69ᵃ ונִיגְבּוֹל בדובשא let him knead it with honey. Ib. וניגדול … וניגבול בהדין קיטמא Ar. (Var. v. גַּרְבֵּל; ed. וניגדבל) let him twist … and mix (the wick) thoroughly with ashes. Gen. R. s. 34, end גַּבְלִין ליה וכ׳, v. אֲדַמְדְּמָנֵי.
- 2. (of parasite worms) to grow. Ḥull. 67ᵇ מיניה קא גַבְלֵי they grow out of it (originate in the body). Ib. bot. כי קא גַבְלָן וכ׳ when they grew, they grew as permitted food.
- as Pe. 1).—Y. Maas. Sh. V, 56ᵈ top ומְגַבְּלָא אדמיה וכ׳ and to mix its blood with flax-seed. B. Mets. 69ᵃ (prov.) גַּבֵּיל לתורא גביל לתורי mix (fodder) for an ox, mix for oxen, i.e. it is the same trouble. Ber. 40ᵃ גביל לתורי (if he interrupted himself by saying,) ‘Mix fodder for the oxen’. Sabb. 156ᵃ
- to be kneaded. Lev. R. s. 6 אִיגַּבְּלוּן בלישה the coins were kneaded with the dough.
גְּבָל
- pr. n., v. גַּבְלָא
גַּבָּל
- (גבל) kneader, baker. Pes. 34ᵃ ג׳ של בית וכ׳ was the baker for the house of Rabbi. Ib. 46ᵃ לג׳ ולתפלה וכ׳ in order to get a kneader (that observes levitical purity), for prayer (in a synagogue) and for washing hands (for a meal) one is bound to walk four mils (no more). Keth. 72ᵃ פלוני ג׳ תקן וכ׳ a certain kneader prepared for me the dough according to the law of Ḥallah.
גַּבְלָא
- (cmp. b. h. גְּבָל) [Highland,] Gabla, Gabalena, a district (and town) South or South West of Jerusalem, occupied by Edomites (v. Graetz Monatsschrift 1875, p. 61 sq.; 1880, p. 481 sq.). Targ. Y. Gen. XXXVI, 20; I Chr. I, 38 (h. text שֵׂעִיר). Targ. Y. I Deut. XXXIII, 2.—Ab. Zar. 59ᵃ; Keth. 112ᵃ איקלע לג׳ came to Gabla. Cmp. גַּבְלָן. e.g. 1 Chronicles 1:38
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1380, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Gebal). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
A line (or natural boundary, as a mountain range). (1.) A tract in the land of Edom south of the Dead Sea (Ps. 83:7); now called Djebal.
(2.) A Phoenician city, not far from the sea coast, to the north of Beyrout (Ezek. 27:9); called by the Greeks Byblos. Now Jibeil. Mentioned in the Amarna tablets.
An important Phoenician text, referring to the temple of Baalath, on a monument of Yehu-melek, its king (probably B.C. 600), has been discovered.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(mountain), a maritime town of Phoenicia, near Tyre, (Ezekiel 27:9) known by the Greeks as Byblus. It is called Jebail by the Arabs, thus reviving the old biblical name.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
bound; limit
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
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