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title: כָּבוּל — Cabul · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּבוּל (3521), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Cabul. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּבוּל

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«כָּבוּל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Cabul** — 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:** 3521 · **BDB:** כָּבוּל

### Glosses

Cabul (1); of.Cabul (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Cabul [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3521/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3521/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city on border of Asher Jos 19:27, mod. Kâbûl, 4 h. (9 miles) SE. from Akko, RobBR iii, 88 GuérinGal. i. 422 f. אֶרֶץ כָּבוּל district in Galilee 1 K 9:13 containing 20 cities given by Sol. to Hiram (popular etymol. poss. כּ as + בֻּל = בַּל not, i.e. as good as nothing, cf. v 12, so Ew Th; Klo conject. ארץ גָּלִיל), BuhlGeogr. § 116.

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּבוּל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3521/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 9:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.13/)

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וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מָ֚ה הֶעָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֥תָּה לִּ֖י אָחִ֑י וַיִּקְרָ֤א לָהֶם֙ אֶ֣רֶץ כָּב֔וּל עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.said what? \[are\].the cities (the) these which you.have.given to me my.brother my and someone.called (to) them the.land of.Cabul until the day (the) this

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother?' And they were called the land of Cabul, unto this day.

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[Joshua 19:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.27/)

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וְשָׁ֨ב מִזְרַ֣ח הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ֮ בֵּ֣ית דָּגֹן֒ בֵּ֣ית דָּגֹן֒ וּפָגַ֣ע בִּ֠זְבֻלוּן וּבְגֵ֨י יִפְתַּח־אֵ֥ל גֵ֨י יִפְתַּח־אֵ֥לגֵ֨י יִפְתַּח־אֵ֥ל צָפ֛וֹנָה בֵּ֥ית הָעֵ֖מֶק בֵּ֥ית הָעֵ֖מֶק וּנְעִיאֵ֑ל וְיָצָ֥א אֶל־כָּב֖וּל מִשְּׂמֹֽאל׃

*Word for word:* and it.turns.back the.rising of the.sun Beth Dagon and it.touches (on) Zebulun and.(on) the.valley of Iphtah El northward Beth Emek and Neiel and it.goes.out to Cabul from.\[the\] north

*JPS 1917:* And it turned toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reached to Zebulun and to the valley of Iphtahel northward at Beth-emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand,

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