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3 Kings 9:13

And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast given me, brother? And he called them the land of Chabul, unto this day.

Challoner: ChabulThat is, dirty or displeasing.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Et ait : Hæccine sunt civitates quas dedisti mihi, frater ? Et appellavit eas terram Chabul, usque in diem hanc.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ εἶπεν Τί αἱ πόλεις αὗται ἃς ἔδωκάς μοι, ἀδελφέ; καὶ ἐκάλεσεν αὐτάς Ὅριον ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.
Hebrew (WLC): וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מָ֚ה הֶעָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁר נָתַ֥תָּה לִּ֖י אָחִ֑י וַיִּקְרָ֤א לָהֶם֙ אֶ֣רֶץ כָּב֔וּל עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה

Haydock's commentary

Brother. By this title the eastern kings addressed each other, chap. xx. 32., and 1 Machabees x. 18., and xi. 30. Solomon and Hiram always lived on good terms. (Calmet)

Chabul: that is, dirty or displeasing. (Challoner)

The latter signification is given by Josephus, from the Phœnician language. (Haydock)

The real meaning is uncertain. Some with the last mentioned author, place these cities in the vicinity of Tyre, south of Ptolemais, which is most probable; though St. Jerome says they were in the land of Basan, beyond the Jordan. (Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.