Gebal definitions Hitchcock Bible Dictionary bound; limit Easton's Bible Dictionary ... at its source in the mountain, at Apheca (see TAMMUZ). Gebal was the center of quite an extensive district, extending from ... Solomon's temple. The "elders" and the "wise men" of Gebal are among the workmen employed on Tyrian ships (Eze 27 ... 9 the American Revised Version, margin). The earliest mention of Gebal found in history is in the Tell el-Amarna Letters ... North and Khabiri from the South attacked the territory of Gebal, and its governor wrote letters to Amenhotep, calling for help ... and finally to fall into the hands of the enemy. Gebal afterward became independent, as is shown by the records ...
... engraved their monuments; and a few miles South of Jebail (Gebal) is the Adonis (Nahr Ibrahim), which comes down from 'Afqa ... 1Ki 7:10), and other examples are found at Sidon, Gebal, Marathus and other places in Phoenicia itself. Their work seems ... a subordinate deity who became the special divinity of Byblus (Gebal), and was regarded by the Greeks as the same as ... regarded as the son of Cinyras, a mythic king of Gebal and the husband of Ashtoreth. The myth of his death ... the peculiar rites celebrating it, instituted by the women of Gebal at Apheca and on the river named after him (see ... patron deity in Roman times; Isis and her temple at Gebal are likewise represented on its coins, the Dioscuri or ...
... the Targum, "stone-squarers," but marg. "Giblites"), the inhabitants of Gebal (2). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ge'-bal-its (ha-gibhlim): Inhabitants of GEBAL (which see). According to the present text of Jos 13 ... for the stones). In Eze 27:9 the men of Gebal are described as the "calkers" of the ships of Tyre ...
... of the Phoenician towns, at least as far North as Gebal (Byblus), as appears in the control that Hiram had over ... him ruler of all the coast cities from Dor to Gebal, and the Lebanon was placed under his control (680-673 ...
... 14). The chief seat of the cult in Syria was Gebal (modern Gebail, Greek Bublos) in Phoenicia, to the South of ... Aphrodite, the ruins of which still exist. The women of Gebal used to repair to this temple in midsummer to celebrate ...