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