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Bounds

boundz: gabhal = "to twist" (as a rope), "to make an enclosure" (as by a line) occurs in Exod 19:12; Exod 19:23; Ps 104:9; gebhul = "a cord," hence, "a boundary," "territory" (Exod 23:31 the King James Version), with its feminine form gebhulah (Deut 32:8; Isa 10:13); choq = "enactment," "appointment" (of time, space, quantity, labor, or usage), hence, "commandment," "decree," "ordinance" (Job 14:5; Job 26:10 the King James Version); in the Greek, horothesia, in the sense of "a limit," "boundary line," occurs in Acts 17:26.

Kilde: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (red. James Orr, 1915/1939), public domain. Translated into Danish with AI and not yet proofread.