Bible Names

Gebal: meaning of the name

Gebal means “bound; limit.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Gebal in Hebrew and Greek

גְּבַל H1380

Gᵉbal (gheb-al') — Gebal, a place in Phoenicia

from H1379 (גָּבַל) (in the sense of a chain of hills); a mountain;

גְּבָל H1381

Gᵉbâl (gheb-awl') — Gebal, a region in Idumaea

the same as H1380 (גְּבַל);

Places named Gebal

Gebal in Scripture

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

  • Psalms 83:7

    Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

  • Ezekiel 27:9

    The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.