גָּבַל gâbal — properly, to twist as a rope
Translated in the KJV as be border, set.
a primitive root; also as a denominative from H1366; properly, to twist as a rope; to bound (as by a line).
gâbal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.
Hiph'il
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperative 1
And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›