Cabul

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

On the boundary of Asher ( Joshua 19:27). Solomon gave to Hiram a district containing 20 cities, Cabal included. Not liking the district, Hiram said, "What, kind of cities are these?" and called the whole from the one city Cabul, which in Phoenician means displeasing ( 1 Kings 9:13). From  2 Chronicles 8:2 it seems that Hiram restored the 20 cities. The district was "Galilee of the Gentiles" ( Isaiah 9:1), i.e. the N. part of Galilee, only in part occupied by Israel, more completely so after Hiram restored the cities. Tiglath Pileser carried the inhabitants captive to Assyria ( 2 Kings 15:29). The cities were occupied chiefly by Canaanite pagans ( 2 Samuel 24:7), and were in a bad condition. Gesenius explains Cabul "the pawned land." Solomon borrowed sixscore talents of gold from Hiram for his extensive buildings, and gave the 20 cities as an equivalent. But on Hiram expressing dissatisfaction with them, he took them back, and, doubtless in course of time, repaid the gold.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A district in the north-west of Galilee, near to Tyre, containing twenty cities given to Hiram by Solomon as a reward for various services rendered to him in building the temple ( 1 Kings 9:13 ), and as payment of the six score talents of gold he had borrowed from him. Hiram gave the cities this name because he was not pleased with the gift, the name signifying "good for nothing." Hiram seems afterwards to have restored these cities to Solomon ( 2 Chronicles 8:2 ).

Copyright Statement These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., DD Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Cabul'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/c/cabul.html. 1897.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Border city of Asher.  Joshua 19:27 . Identified with Kabul, 32 52' N, 35 12' E '.

2. Name given by Hiram king of Tyre to the twenty cities in Galilee given him by Solomon, because he was displeased with them.  1 Kings 9:13 . Josephus says (Ant. viii. 5,3) that the meaning of the term in the Phoenician tongue was 'what does not please.' Apparently Hiram returned them to Solomon.  2 Chronicles 8:2 .

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

the name which Hiram, king of Tyre, gave to the twenty cities in the land of Galilee, of which Solomon made him a present, in acknowledgment for the great services in building the temple, 1 Kings 9:31. These cities not being agreeable to Hiram, on viewing them, he called them the land of Cabul, which in the Hebrew tongue denotes displeasing; others take it to signify binding, or adhesive, from the clayey nature of the soil.

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

So Hiram called the twenty cities Solomon gave him for his aid, in the materials he furnished him with for the building of the temple. ( 1 Kings 9:13) The word signifies, unpleasant. Probably, it was one of those cities mentioned  Joshua 19:27.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Probably meaning displeasing,

1. A name given by Hiram king of Tyre to a district in Northern Galilee containing twenty cities, which Solomon gave him for his help in building the temple,  1 Kings 9:13; the term implying his dissatisfaction with the gift.

2. A city of Asher,  Joshua 19:27 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ca'bul.

1. One of the landmarks, on the boundary of Asher,  Joshua 19:27, now Kabul , 9 or 10 miles east of Accho.

2. Name of the land given to Hiram, by Solomon.  1 Kings 9:10-13.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

CABUL (  Joshua 19:27 ,   1 Kings 9:13 ). A town of Asher on the border of Zebulun. The district was ceded by Solomon to Tyre. Prob. the large village Kabul , E. of Acco.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 19:27 Song of Solomon 120  1 Kings 9:10-14

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrews Kabul', כָּבוּל , according to etymology, Bound, but signification uncertain [see below]), the name of a town and a district.

1. (Sept. Χαβώλ , but other copies blend with the following words into Χωβαμασομέλ .) A city on the eastern border of the tribe of Asher, and apparently at the northern part, beyond Beth-Emek ( Joshua 19:27). It seems to correspond to the village Chabolo ( Χαβωλώ ) mentioned by Josephus (Lfe, § 43, 45) as on the confines of Ptolemais, in Galilee, 40 stadia from Jotapata. A fortress by the name of Kabul is mentioned by Arabian geographers in the district of Safed (Rosenmiuller, Analect. Arab. in, 20). Dr. Robinson, during his last visit to Palestine, accordingly found a village called Kabul on his way to Accho, situated "on the left, among the lower hills" (Biblioth. Sacra, 1853, p. 121; Later Bibl. Res. p. 88; for Talmudical notices, see Schwarz, Palest. p. 192).

2. (Sept. translates ῞Οριον , Boundary, but in neglect of the context, ver. 12, which favors the derivation of Simonis [Ononmast. p. 417] and Hiller [Onomast. p. 435, 775], as i.q. "something exhaled, as nothing;" Josephus [Ant. 8:5, 3] calls it Χαβαλών , and says [apparently from conjecture] that it is a Phoenician word indicative of Dissatisfaction.) A district containing "twenty cities," given to Hiram, king of Tyre, by Solomon, in acknowledgment of the important services which he had rendered toward the building of the Temple ( 1 Kings 9:13). Hiram was by no means pleased with the gift, and the district received the name of Ca. bul (as if signifying Unpleasing) from this circumstance. The situation of Cabul has been disputed; but we are content to accept the information of Josephus (Ant. 8:5, 3), who seems to place it in the north-west part of Galilee, adjacent to Tyre. The foregoing town, named Cabul ( Joshua 19:27), being also in Galilee, it is possible that it was one of the twenty towns consigned to Hiram, who, to mark his dissatisfaction, applied the significant name of this one town to the whole district. The cause of Hiram's dislike to what Solomon doubtless considered a liberal gift is very uncertain. It has been conjectured (Kitto, Pictorial Bible, note on  1 Kings 9:13) that "probably, as the Phoenicians were a maritime and commercial people, Hiram wished rather for a part of the coast, which was now in the hands of Solomon, and was therefore not prepared to approve of a district which might have been of considerable value in the eyes of an agricultural people like the Hebrews. Perhaps the towns were in part payment of what Solomon owed Hiram for his -various services and contributions." (See Hiram).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kā´bul ( כּבוּל , kābhūl  ; Codex Vaticanus, Χωβαμασομέλ , Chōbamasomél  ; Codex Alexandrinus, Χαβὼλ ἀπὸ ἀριστερῶν , Chabō̇l apó aristerō̇n ):

(1) A city on the boundary between Asher and Zebulun ( Joshua 19:27 ). It corresponds to the Chabolo of Josephus ( Vita , 43, etc.), and is represented by the modern village Kābūl , about nine miles Southeast of Acre.

(2) A district probably connected with (1), containing 20 cities, given by Solomon to Hiram king of Tyre ( 1 Kings 9:10 ).

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Ca´bul, a district given to Hiram, king of Tyre, by Solomon, in acknowledgment of the important services which he had rendered towards the building of the Temple (). Hiram was by no means pleased with the gift, and the district received the name of Cabul (unpleasing) from this circumstance. The situation of Cabul has been disputed; but we are content to accept the information of Josephus, who seems to place it in the north-west part of Galilee, adjacent to Tyre.