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גִּבְלִי

Giblites

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Giblites’ fuller range ↓

H1382 Strong's Hebrew
Giblîy Transliteration
/ghib-lee'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

גבלי (Giblîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Giblites.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Joshua dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. It first appears in Joshua 13:5. For the data behind this summary, explore 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Giblites
Modern gloss
Giblites
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H1382 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 →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
Joshua 13:5
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Joshua 13:5.
1 Kings 5:18
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Kings 5:18.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 2 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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 2 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Giblites 1×, Stonesquarers 1×
  • American Standard Version: Gebalites 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Along with the gebalites 1×, Gebalites 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gebalite 1×, Gebalites 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H1382 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Giblites” 1×
  • “Stonesquarers” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H1382 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Gebalites” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H1382 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Along with the gebalites” 1×
  • “Gebalites” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H1382 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Gebalite” 1×
  • “Gebalites” 1×

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.

  1. Giblites = "a boundary"
  2. inhabitants of Gebal

Word origin

גִּבְלִי adj.gent. of foregoing [ c.aj.ag ], c. art. = n.coll.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from גבל (Gᵉbal) (H1380) — Gebal.

Part of speech: Adjective


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H1382 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
הַ/גִּבְלִ֗י Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Joshua 13:5 1
וְ/הַ/גִּבְלִ֑ים Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 Kings 5:18 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1382, 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.

Derives from

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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