gevula · border, territory

What it means

gevula (גְּבוּלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “border, territory”.

Territory, border: the limit of a land and the region it encloses.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The line enclosing a land, or what lies within.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• borders ×5
• boundaries ×3
• border ×1
• boundary markers ×1

Where it appears

• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2

• Numbers 32:33

  Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within their borders, the cities of the land all around.

• Numbers 34:2

  “Command the sons of Israel and say to them: When you enter into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its borders.

• Numbers 34:12

  and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and it shall end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land by its borders all around.”

• Deuteronomy 32:8

  When Elyon gave the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of man, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

• Joshua 18:20

  And the Jordan bordered it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, by its borders all around, according to their families.

• Joshua 19:49

  And they finished inheriting the land by its borders; and the sons of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua son of Nun in their midst.

• Job 24:2

  They move boundary markers; they seize a flock and pasture it.

• Psalms 74:17

  You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; summer and winter, you formed them.

• Isaiah 10:13

  For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; and I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and their treasures I have plundered; and like a mighty one I have brought down those who sat on thrones.

• Isaiah 28:25

  Is it not that, when he has leveled its surface, he scatters black cumin and throws cumin, and puts wheat in rows and barley in its marked place and spelt at its border?