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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia · 1915

Limit

lim'-it (gebhul, "bound"):

Occurs once in Ezekiel 43:12 ("limit" of holy mountain). "Limited" (Psalms 78:41) and "limiteth" (horizo, Hebrews 4:7) are changed in the Revised Version (British and American) to "provoked" (the margin retains "limited") and "defineth" respectively.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr, general editor (Chicago: Howard-Severance, 1915). Public domain. Text as published by biblestudytools.com. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation.