גִּבְלִי
givli · Gebalite
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1382 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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givli (גִּבְלִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Gebalite”.
An inhabitant of Gebal, a coastal city in the north (Byblos).
How to say it
giv·li
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
- People of a northern coastal city, skilled at cutting stone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- Joshua 13:5
and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
- 1 Kings 5:18
And the builders of Solomon and the builders of Hiram and the Gebalites hewed them and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.