Cabul is said to be a Phoenician word, and it signified “displeasing.” There is some reason to believe that the cities thus despised by Hiram were …

Cabul. —The derivation of this word is uncertain. Josephus evidently did not know it as a Hebrew word, for he expressly says that …

And he said
By letter to him:

what cities are these which you have given me, my brother