boundary
qe.tsev denotes boundaries or extremities, including the land’s extended limits.
The attested plural construct form denotes boundaries or extremities: Isaiah 26:15 places it in the statement that the land’s boundaries have been extended, while Psalm 48:11 and Psalm 65:6 retain the form in clauses whose APB wording does not isolate its contribution.
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Boundaries or outer limits · dominant
In Isaiah 26:15, the plural construct form occurs in the clause that the APB renders, “you have extended all the boundaries of the land.” The same form occurs in Psalm 48:11, alongside the daughters of Judah’s exultation over judgments, and in Psalm 65:6, in the verse about establishing mountains; in those two verses the translation does not visibly identify a separate English equivalent for the term.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly presents the term’s clause in Isaiah 26:15 as “the boundaries of the land.” In Psalm 48:11 and Psalm 65:6, the supplied translation gives the surrounding clauses without an identifiable separate rendering for the term.