border
ge.vu.lah denotes the defined limits marking a land, people, city area, or field placement.
The attested use chiefly concerns defined limits for lands and territories: inherited land, city areas, peoples, and the earth are described in relation to such limits. A single agricultural instance applies the term to the designated edge or placement of emmer within a cultivated field.
Senses in use
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Defined limits of land, peoples, and territory · dominant
In Numbers 34:2 and Numbers 34:12, the construct plural occurs in instructions defining the land of Canaan and its surrounding extent; the APB renders the clauses with “borders.” Joshua 18:20, Joshua 19:49, and Numbers 32:33 likewise place the plural within descriptions of inherited land, cities, and their surrounding extent. Deuteronomy 32:8, Isaiah 10:13, Job 24:2, and Psalm 74:17 extend this use to peoples, moved boundary stones, and the earth's fixed limits.
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Designated edge within cultivated planting · rare
In Isaiah 28:25, the singular construct occurs in the description of preparing and sowing a field, where emmer is set at a designated edge; the APB renders the clause “emmer as its border.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the term with “borders” or “boundaries,” including the limits of peoples, land, and the earth. In Isaiah 28:25 it uses “border” for the field arrangement; these are translation-level renderings rather than definitions.