Strong's #1379: gabal (pronounced gaw-bal')

a primitive root; properly, to twist as a rope; only (as a denominative from 1366) to bound (as by a line):--be border, set (bounds about).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâbal

1) to bound, border

1a) (Qal) to bound, border

1b) (Hiphil) to set bounds, set bounds for

Part of Speech: verbal denominative

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Exodus 19:12: " And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount,"
Exodus 19:23: "for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify"
Deuteronomy 19:14: "landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land"
Joshua 18:20: " was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin,"
Zechariah 9:2: "also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise."