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gebal |
2 definitions found From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Gebal a line (or natural boundary, as a mountain range). (1.) A tract in the land of Edom south of the Dead Sea (Ps. 83:7); now called Djebal (2.) A Phoenician city, not far from the sea coast, to the north of Beyrout (Ezek. 27:9); called by the Greeks Byblos. Now Jibeil Mentioned in the Amarna tablets. An important Phoenician text, referring to the temple of Baalath, on a monument of Yehu-melek, its king (probably B.C. 600), has been discovered. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Gebal, bound; limit
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