Frontier

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1):

(a.) Of or relating to a frontier.

(2):

(n.) That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

(3):

(n.) An outwork.

(4):

(a.) Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.

(5):

(v. i.) To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; - with on.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]

fron´tēr frun´tēr קצה ḳāceh Ezekiel 25:9

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]

(קָצֶה, katseh', end, as often rendered, comp. Jeremiah 51:31; Isaiah 56:11), the extremity or border of a country (Ezekiel 25:9).

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