Gebal

Gee´buhl; Heb., “mountain”

A Canaanite and Phoenician port about twenty miles north of Beirut, known to the Greeks as Byblos and today called Jebail. Mentioned in (Josh 13:5) as part of the “land that still remains” to be conquered, it was famous for its craftsmen: stonemasons and carpenters who helped construct Solomon’s Temple (1Kgs 5:18) and shipwrights (Ezek 27:9) who used cedar, spruce, and cypress from the high mountains immediately east of the city.