Cabul is the name of two places in
ancient IsraelThe history of ancient Israel and Judah is known to us essentially from the Hebrew Bible...
mentioned in the
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- A district in the north-west of Galilee
Galilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country...
, near to Tyre, containing twenty cities given to HiramHiram , Standard Hebrew ', Tiberian Hebrew ') is a biblical given name.Notable people bearing the name include:* Hiram I, king of Tyrus, 969–936 BCE...
by SolomonSolomon is a figure described in the Hebrew Bible as a King of Israel and later in the Qur'an, where he is described as a Prophet. The biblical accounts identify Solomon as the son of David...
as a reward for various services rendered to him in building the temple. (1 Kings 9:13) Hiram however was not pleased with the gift, the name signifying "good for nothing.". Josephus ("Ant." viii. 5, § 3) interprets "Cabul" as meaning, in Phoenician, "what does not please"; but doubt has been cast on this interpretation of the term.
- One of the landmarks on the boundary of Asher
Asher , in the Book of Genesis, is the second son of Jacob and Zilpah, and the founder of the Tribe of Asher.Ashar is also a place in Israel.-Asher the son of Jacob:...
, (Joshua 19:27) now the Kabul local councilLocal councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being cities and regional councils. As of 2003, there were 144 local councils in Israel, these being settlements which pass a minimum threshold enough to justify their operations as independent...
in IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
, 9 or east of AccoAcre also Akko, is a city in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel. It is situated on a low promontory at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , Acre had a population of 46,000 at the end of 2007...
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Cabul is the name of two places in
ancient IsraelThe history of ancient Israel and Judah is known to us essentially from the Hebrew Bible...
mentioned in the
Hebrew BibleThe Hebrew Bible is a term referring to the books of the Jewish Bible as originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic...
:
- A district in the north-west of Galilee
Galilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country...
, near to Tyre, containing twenty cities given to HiramHiram , Standard Hebrew ', Tiberian Hebrew ') is a biblical given name.Notable people bearing the name include:* Hiram I, king of Tyrus, 969–936 BCE...
by SolomonSolomon is a figure described in the Hebrew Bible as a King of Israel and later in the Qur'an, where he is described as a Prophet. The biblical accounts identify Solomon as the son of David...
as a reward for various services rendered to him in building the temple. (1 Kings 9:13) Hiram however was not pleased with the gift, the name signifying "good for nothing.". Josephus ("Ant." viii. 5, § 3) interprets "Cabul" as meaning, in Phoenician, "what does not please"; but doubt has been cast on this interpretation of the term.
- One of the landmarks on the boundary of Asher
Asher , in the Book of Genesis, is the second son of Jacob and Zilpah, and the founder of the Tribe of Asher.Ashar is also a place in Israel.-Asher the son of Jacob:...
, (Joshua 19:27) now the Kabul local councilLocal councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being cities and regional councils. As of 2003, there were 144 local councils in Israel, these being settlements which pass a minimum threshold enough to justify their operations as independent...
in IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
, 9 or east of AccoAcre also Akko, is a city in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel. It is situated on a low promontory at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , Acre had a population of 46,000 at the end of 2007...
. Josephus ("Vita," § 43) refers to it as "the village of Chabolo situated in the confines of Ptolemais."