Gebal

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a line (or natural boundary, as a mountain range).

A tract in the land of Edom south of the Dead Sea (Ps 83⁷); now called Djebal.
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.

This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.

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