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Lexicon :: Strong's H1366 - gᵊḇûl

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גְּבוּל
Transliteration
gᵊḇûl
Pronunciation
gheb-ool'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 307a

Strong’s Definitions

גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl, gheb-ool'; or גְּבֻל gᵉbul; (shortened) from H1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed:—border, bound, coast, × great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 241x

The KJV translates Strong's H1366 in the following manner: border (158x), coast (69x), bound (5x), landmark (4x), space (2x), limit (1x), quarters (1x), non translated variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 241x
The KJV translates Strong's H1366 in the following manner: border (158x), coast (69x), bound (5x), landmark (4x), space (2x), limit (1x), quarters (1x), non translated variant (1x).

  1. border, territory

    1. border

    2. territory (enclosed within boundary)

    3. region, territory (of darkness) (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl, gheb-ool'; or גְּבֻל gᵉbul; (shortened) from H1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed:—border, bound, coast, × great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
STRONGS H1366: Abbreviations
גבול(ח) Joshua 15:47 Kt; read הַגָּדוֺל Vrss. Manuscripts compare Joshua 15:12.

גְּבוּל 240 noun masculineNumbers 34 border, boundary, territory (Late Hebrew id., Punic gubulim (plural, PlautPoen. i. 9) — גָּבוּל Genesis 10:19 + 168 times + Joshua 15:47 Kt (but read Qr גָּדוֺל); גְּבֻל Numbers 21:13 + 9 times; (both, in absolute & construct, e.g. absolute Numbers 22:36; Numbers 34:8, construct Genesis 10:19; 2 Samuel 21:5); suffix גְּבוּלִי 1 Chronicles 4:10, גְּבוּלְךָ Exodus 7:27, גְבֻלְךָ Exodus 23:31 + 3 times, etc.; plural (8 times) only suffix גְּבוּלֶיךָ Jeremiah 15:13; Jeremiah 17:3, etc.; —
1. border, boundary,
a. of a land or people: Canaanites Genesis 10:19 (J), Edom Numbers 20:23; Joshua 15:1, 21 (all P) compare Obadiah 7, Amorites Numbers 21:13 (E) Joshua 13:4 (D) compare Joshua 12:5 (D) Judges 1:36, Moab Numbers 21:13, 15; Numbers 22:36 (E) Numbers 33:44 (P) Deuteronomy 2:18; Judges 11:18 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 3:21; Isaiah 15:8, Ammon Numbers 21:24 (E) Deuteronomy 3:16; Joshua 12:2; Joshua 13:10 (all D) Amos 1:3, Bashan Joshua 12:4 (D), Egypt 1 Kings 5:1 = 2 Chronicles 9:26; Isaiah 19:19; especially of promised land Exodus 23:31; Exodus 34:24 (JE) Numbers 34:3+ + 13 times Numbers 34 (all P) Deuteronomy 11:24; Deuteronomy 12:20; Deuteronomy 16:4; Joshua 1:4 (D), compare Ezekiel 45:1 + 10 times Ezekiel 45-48; also of Israel 2 Kings 14:25; Amos 6:2; Malachi 1:5.
b. boundary of smaller divisions, e.g. Geshurites Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5; Joshua 13:11 (all D), compare Joshua 16:2, 3(J) Joshua 19:12 (P); especially of tribes of Israel Deuteronomy 3:16, 17; Joshua 13:30 (all D) Joshua 13:16 + 60 times Joshua 13-19 (P); — Joshua 15:47 read גדול see above; Joshua 22:25 (P) & Joshua 17:8; Joshua 18:11; Joshua 24:30 (JE), compare 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 6:51; 2 Chronicles 11:13; Ezekiel 48:1 + 15 times Ezekiel 48 (including Ezekiel 48:22; Ezekiel 48:22 q. strike out Co); — in 1 Samuel 13:18 read for גְּבוּל, הַגֶּבַע Greek Version of the LXX We Dr.
†c. boundary of territory belonging to an individual, — of field, piece of ground, etc. Genesis 23:17 (P) Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17; Joshua 24:30 (E) = Judges 2:9; 1 Chronicles 4:10; Proverbs 15:25; Proverbs 22:28; Proverbs 23:10; Hosea 5:10.
†d. border of stream Numbers 22:36.
†e. limit to waters of deep Psalm 104:9 compare Jeremiah 5:22.
†f. a concrete object marking limit,
(α) barrier in Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 40:12 (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Co) Ezekiel 40:12;
(β) border of altar Ezekiel 43:13, 17, 20;
(γ) surrounding wall of restored Zion Isaiah 54:12 (so Greek Version of the LXX Ew Kn Che; De Brd territory, Di undecided).
†2. territory (enclosed within boundary),
a. of land or people Genesis 47:21 (J) Exodus 7:27 (P) Exodus 10:4, 14 (|| ארץ) Exodus 10:19; Exodus 13:7 (all J), Numbers 20:16, 17, 21; Numbers 21:22 (E; || ארץ) = Judges 11:20; Numbers 21:23 (E) Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 19:3 (אַרְצְךָ גּ׳) Deuteronomy 19:8; Deuteronomy 28:40; Joshua 18:5 (twice in verse) (E) Judges 11:22; Judges 19:29; 2 Samuel 21:5; 1 Kings 1:3; 2 Kings 10:32; 1 Chronicles 21:12 (|| ארץ) Psalm 105:31 (= ארץ in || Ezekiel 8:16, 17) Psalm 8:33; Psalm 147:14; Jeremiah 31:17; Ezekiel 11:10, 11; Joel 3:6; Zephaniah 2:8.
b. territory of a city (or limit of such territory) Numbers 35:26, 27; Joshua 13:26; Judges 1:18 (3 times in verse); Ezekiel 47:16 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 47:17 (twice in verse) (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co) Ezekiel 48:1; Amos 6:2.
†c. territory about Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 43:12.
†d. plural in like sense (only use of plural), of land Micah 5:5; Isaiah 60:18 (|| ארץ) Jeremiah 15:13; Jeremiah 17:13, of city 1 Samuel 5:6; 2 Kings 15:16; 2 Kings 18:8; so Ezekiel 27:4 of Tyre.
†e. figurative territory (region) of darkness Job 38:20; territory of wickedness Malachi 1:4 (of Edom); territory of his holiness Psalm 78:54 (of Canaan).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:19; 10:19; 10:19; 23:17; 47:21

Exodus

10:4; 10:14; 10:19; 13:7; 23:31; 23:31; 34:24

Numbers

20:16; 20:17; 20:21; 20:23; 21:13; 21:13; 21:13; 21:15; 21:22; 21:23; 21:24; 22:36; 22:36; 22:36; 33:44; 34; 34; 34:3; 34:8; 35:26; 35:27

Deuteronomy

2:4; 2:18; 3:14; 3:16; 3:16; 3:17; 11:24; 12:20; 16:4; 19:3; 19:8; 19:14; 27:17; 28:40

Joshua

1:4; 12:2; 12:4; 12:5; 12:5; 13; 13:4; 13:10; 13:11; 13:16; 13:26; 13:30; 14; 15; 15:1; 15:12; 15:21; 15:47; 15:47; 15:47; 16; 16:2; 16:3; 17; 17:8; 18; 18:5; 18:11; 19; 19:12; 22:25; 24:30; 24:30

Judges

1:18; 1:36; 2:9; 11:18; 11:20; 11:22; 19:29

1 Samuel

5:6; 13:18

2 Samuel

21:5; 21:5

1 Kings

1:3; 5:1

2 Kings

3:21; 10:32; 14:25; 15:16; 18:8

1 Chronicles

4:10; 4:10; 6:39; 6:51; 21:12

2 Chronicles

9:26; 11:13

Job

38:20

Psalms

78:54; 104:9; 105:31; 147:14

Proverbs

15:25; 22:28; 23:10

Isaiah

15:8; 19:19; 54:12; 60:18

Jeremiah

5:22; 15:13; 15:13; 17:3; 17:13; 31:17

Ezekiel

8:16; 8:17; 11:10; 11:11; 27:4; 40:12; 40:12; 43:12; 43:13; 43:17; 43:20; 45; 45:1; 46; 47; 47:16; 47:17; 48; 48; 48:1; 48:1; 48:22; 48:22

Hosea

5:10

Joel

3:6

Amos

1:3; 6:2; 6:2

Obadiah

1:7

Micah

5:5

Zephaniah

2:8

Malachi

1:4; 1:5

H1366

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Strong's Number H1366 matches the Hebrew גְּבוּל (gᵊḇûl),
which occurs 241 times in 196 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 10:19–Jos 12:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:19 - And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:17 - So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border thereof round about, were made sure

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:21 - And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:2 - And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:7 - Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 - For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in the year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:16 - and when we cried unto Jehovah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells; we will go along the king’s highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:21 - Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:23 - And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - From thence they journeyed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that cometh out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:15 -
And the slope of the valleys
That inclineth toward the dwelling of Ar,
And leaneth upon the border of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed thy border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23 - And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:24 - And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:36 - And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:44 - And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:4 - and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out thereof shall be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:5 - and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:6 - And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:7 - And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:8 - from mount Hor ye shall mark out unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:9 - and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:10 - And ye shall mark out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:11 - and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12 - and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4 - And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:18 - Thou art this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:14 - Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this day.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:16 - And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border thereof, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 - the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:20 - When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:4 - And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which thou sacrificest the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3 - Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the borders of thy land, which Jehovah thy God causeth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee thither.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8 - And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:14 - Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:17 - Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40 - Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast its fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:4 - and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:5 - and ruled in mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

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