Dictionary entry

Limit

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

lim'-it (gebhul, "bound"): Occurs once inEze 43:12("limit" of holy mountain). "Limited" (Ps 78:41) and "limiteth" (horizo,Heb 4:7) are changed in the Revised Version (British and American) to "provoked" (the margin retains "limited") and "defineth" respectively.