גבול

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡvul/

גְּבוּל • (g'vúl) m (plural indefinite גְּבוּלוֹת‎, singular construct גְּבוּל־, plural construct גְּבוּלוֹת־‎)

1. A border, a boundary, a limit, a line: a line dividing two fields, or two cities, or two countries, or the like.
2. The area within a set of borders.
3. An edge, an end, a limit.

   ‏גבול חייו‎ ― g'vúl-khayáv ― his end [literally the end of his life]

4. Used figuratively.
5. (גְּבוּל־‎, g'vúl-) Singular construct formal of גְּבוּל‎‎.

• In addition to the plural forms in ־וֹת (-ót) given above, the regular plural forms are attested as well: גְּבוּלִים‎ (g'vulím), גְּבוּלֵי־‎ (g'vuléi-). These are much less common, however.

• “גְּבוּל” in Abraham Even-Shoshan (אַבְרָהָם אֶבֶן־שֹׁשָן) et al., הַמִּלּוֹן הֶחָדָשׁ‎ (ha-milón he-khadásh, “The New Dictionary”), Kiryat-Sefer Ltd. (קִרְיַת־סֵפֶר בְּע״ם)‎ (1984), →ISBN, volume 1 of 3 (א to כ), →ISBN, page 154.

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