King James Bible Dictionary

A line (or natural boundary, as a mountain range).

1. A tract in the land of Edom south of the Dead Sea (Psalms 83:7); now called Djebal.

2. A Phoenician city, not far from the sea coast, to the north of Beyrout (Ezekiel 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.

bound; limit

1. A city south of Sidon

Given to Reuben
Joshua 13:5

People of, work for Solomon
1 Kings 5:18

Shipbuilders in
Ezekiel 27:9

2. A district near the Dead Sea
Psalms 83:7

(mountain), a maritime town of Phoenicia, near Tyre, (Ezekiel 27:9) known by the Greeks as Byblus. It is called Jebail by the Arabs, thus reviving the old biblical name.

(1 Kings 5:18 R.V., in A.V. incorrectly rendered, after the Targum, "stone-squarers," but marg. "Giblites"), the inhabitants of Gebal (2).