Bible Names

Cabul: meaning of the name

Cabul means “displeasing; dirty.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Cabul in Hebrew and Greek

כָּבוּל H3521

Kâbûwl (kaw-bool') — Cabul, the name of two places in Palestine

from the same as H3525 (כֶּבֶל) in the sense of limitation; sterile;

Places named Cabul

Cabul in Scripture

“Cabul” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 19:27

    And turneth toward the sunrising to Beth–dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah–el toward the north side of Beth–emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,

  • 1 Kings 9:13

    And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.