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title: גִּבְלִי — Gebalite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גִּבְלִי (1382), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Gebalite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גִּבְלִי

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«גִּבְלִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Gebalite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 1382 · **BDB:** גִּבְלִי

### Glosses

Gebalites (1); the.Gebalite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Gebalite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1382/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1382/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. offoregoing, c.art. = n.coll. Jos 13:5 והארץ הַגִּבְלִי, but read גְּבוּל הַגּ׳, cf. Di. 1 K 5:32 הַגִּבְלִים (but prob. textual error Th reads וַיַּגְבִּלוּם and they bordered them, made a border for them (the stones); 𝔊 ἔβαλαν, cf. also Klo).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גִּבְלִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1382/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 5:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.32/)

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וַֽיִּפְסְל֞וּ בֹּנֵ֧י שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה וּבֹנֵ֥י חִיר֖וֹם וְהַגִּבְלִ֑ים וַיָּכִ֛ינוּ הָעֵצִ֥ים וְהָאֲבָנִ֖ים לִבְנ֥וֹת הַבָּֽיִת׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.cut.\[them\].out the.builders of.Solomon and the.builders of.Hiram and the Gebalites and they.prepared the wood(s) and the stones to build the house

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

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[Joshua 13:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.5/)

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וְהָאָ֣רֶץ הַגִּבְלִ֗י וְכָל־הַלְּבָנוֹן֙ מִזְרַ֣ח הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ מִבַּ֣עַל גָּ֔ד בַּ֣עַל גָּ֔ד תַּ֖חַת הַר־חֶרְמ֑וֹן עַ֖ד לְב֥וֹא חֲמָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and the land of the.Gebalite\[s\] and all (the) Lebanon the.rising of the.sun from Baal Gad under the.mountain of.Hermon to Lebo Hamath

*JPS 1917:* and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance of Hamath;

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