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Strong's #1380 - גְּבַל

Transliteration

Gᵉbal

Phonetics

gheb-al'

Origin

from (H1379) (in the sense of a chain of hills)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Gebal = "mountain"
1. a maritime town of Phoenicia near Tyre (modern ´Jebeil´) known to the Greeks as ´Byblus´

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Ezekiel 1

BSB (1)

Ezekiel 1

CSB (1)

Ezekiel 1

ESV (1)

Ezekiel 1

KJV (1)

Ezekiel 1

LEB (1)

Ezekiel 1

LSB (1)

Ezekiel 1

N95 (1)

Ezekiel 1

NAS (1)

Ezekiel 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Ezekiel 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

גְּבַל proper name, of a location maritime city on the Phoenician coast Ezekiel 27:9; (Phoenician גבל = Byblus (Sm D1Joshua 13:5); in Assyrian Gubli COT^Gloss); modern Jebeil Bd^{Pal 358}; see also Furrer^{ZPV viii.20}

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

גְּבַל (i.q. جَبَلُ “mountain” [“see the root גָּבַל No. 1.”]), [Gebal], pr.n. of a city of the Phœnicians, between Tripoli and Berytus, situated not far from the sea, in a lofty place (Strabo xvi. P. 755, Casaub.), whose inhabitants were skilful as sailors (Ezekiel 27:9) and as architects (1 Ki. 5:32 ). It was called by the Greeks, Βύβλος (see Strabo, Ptol., Steph. Byz.), rarely Βίβλος, by the Arabs to this day جِبْلَةُ, and dimin. جِبَيْلُ, جُبَيْلُ, i.e. little mountain. Gent. n. גִּבְלִי [Giblites, stone-squarers], pl. גִּבְלִים 1 Ki. 5:32.

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List of Word Forms

גְבַ֤ל גבל ḡə·ḇal ḡəḇal geVal