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ATS Bible Dictionary

Landmark

Fences and walls seem to have been little used in Judea, Mark 2:23, though gardens were sometimes inclosed. The ancient and permanent limits, therefore, of individual property in the open field, Ruth 2:3, were marked by trees or heaps of stones at the corners; and as it was easy, by removing these, to encroach on a neighbor's ground, a peculiar form of dishonesty arose, requiring a severe punishment, De 19:14 Proverbs 22:28 Hosea 5:10.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A boundary line indicated by a stone, stake, etc. (Deuteronomy 19:14; 27:17; Proverbs 22:28; 23:10; Job 24:2). Landmarks could not be removed without incurring the severe displeasure of God.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.

2. (n.) A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

LANDMARK

land'-mark (gebhul, literally, "boundary"): The boundary may have been marked, as at present, simply by a furrow or stone. The iniquity of removing a landmark is frequently insisted on (Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17 Proverbs 22:28; Proverbs 23:10 Job 24:2 gebhulah), its removal being equivalent to theft.

Strong's Hebrew

1366. gebul -- border, boundary, territory
... border, bound, coast, great, landmark, limit, quarter, space. ... The territory inclosed --
border, bound, coast, X great, landmark, limit, quarter, space. ...
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1367. gebulah -- border, boundary
... border, bound, coast, landmark. Or (shortened) gbulah {gheb-oo-law'}; feminine of
gbuwl; a boundary, region -- border, bound, coast, landmark. Place. ...
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Library

Of Passages from the Holy Scriptures, and from the Apocrypha ...
... They forgot this landmark when they enacted so many constitutions, so many canons,
and so many dogmatical decisions, without sanction from the word of God. ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/of passages from the holy.htm

The Lame Man at the Temple Gate.
... Although this miracle was followed by consequences so serious as to make it a landmark
in the history of those early days of the Church, it was not itself the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/dods/how to become like christ/the lame man at the.htm

In Judaea
... Zeitg. p.26). Opposite to it were the graves of Bilhah and of Dinah (cp34). Only
five miles from Jerusalem, this pillar was, no doubt, a well-known landmark. ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 5 in judaea.htm

Home-Example.
... Hence the parental example may lead the child to happiness or to ruin. "Lo! thou
art a landmark on a hill; thy little ones copy thee in all things. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/philips/the christian home/chapter xx home-example.htm

Epistle vii. --To Philemon, a Presbyter.
... For it is written, "Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy fathers
have placed." [846]. Footnotes: [843] Of Sixtus, bishop of Rome. [ad 257]. ...
/.../dionysius/the works of dionysius/epistle vii to philemon a presbyter.htm

The Lamp and the Bushel
... no doubt they could see some village perched upon a ridge for safety, with its white
walls gleaming in the strong Syrian sunlight; a landmark for many a mile ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the lamp and the bushel.htm

The Hexapla, and the Hexaplaric and Other Recensions of the ...
... In this matter it was well, he urged, to bear in mind the precept of Proverbs
22:28, "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set." The same ...
/.../chapter iii the hexapla and.htm

The Second Series of Parables - the Two Parables of Him who is ...
... And the record of the raising of Lazarus may serve as a landmark between our Summary
of the Parables and that of the Discourses and Events which preceded the ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xv the second series.htm

The Story of the Tower of Babel
... And they said, "Come, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top will touch the
heavens, and thus make a landmark, that we may not be scattered over all the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/the story of the tower.htm

Faustus Seeks to Bring into Ridicule the Orthodox Claim to Believe ...
... Him, as if it was not enough to name God, without adding whose God He is"Abraham's,
namely, and Isaac's and Jacob's; as if Abraham were a landmark to steer ...
/.../faustus seeks to bring into.htm

Thesaurus

Landmark (5 Occurrences)
...LANDMARK. land'-mark (gebhul, literally, "boundary"): The boundary may have been
marked, as at present, simply by a furrow or stone. ...Landmark (5 Occurrences). ...
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Enrogel (4 Occurrences)
... more probable. (1) En-rogel was an important landmark on the boundary between
Judah and Benjamin (Joshua 15:7; Joshua 18:16). Here ...
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En-rogel (4 Occurrences)
... more probable. (1) En-rogel was an important landmark on the boundary between
Judah and Benjamin (Joshua 15:7; Joshua 18:16). Here ...
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Neighbour's (30 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old
time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land ...
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Neighbor's (31 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old
time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that ...
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Boundary (83 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 19:14 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 ...
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Jehoiachin (20 Occurrences)
... It was rather a historic landmark than a reign; but its year, 597 BC, was important
as the date of the first deportation of Jewish captives to Babylon (unless ...
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Landmarks (1 Occurrence)

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Landings (1 Occurrence)

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Field (390 Occurrences)
... In all references occurs "the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's
field"; this must have been a well-known landmark at Jerusalem in the ...
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Bible Concordance

Landmark (5 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 27:17 'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say,'Amen.'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
(KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Proverbs 23:10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
(KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Hosea 5:10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY RSV)

Subtopics

Landmark

Related Terms

Enrogel (4 Occurrences)

En-rogel (4 Occurrences)

Neighbour's (30 Occurrences)

Neighbor's (31 Occurrences)

Boundary (83 Occurrences)