Category:Tabor

Ta"bor, n. Etym: [of. tabor, tabour, f. tambour; cf. Pr. tabor, Tanbor, sp. & pg. tambor, atambor, it. tamburo; all fr. Ar. & per. Tamb a kind of lute, or giutar, or per. tabir a drum. Cf. Tabouret, Tambour.] (mus.)

Defn: a small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both Being played by the same person. [written also tabour, and taber.]

Tabor Ta"bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tabored; p. pr. & vb. n. Taboring.] Etym: [cf. Of. taborer.] [written also tabour.]

1. To play on a tabor, or little drum.

2. To strike lightly and frequently.

Tabor Ta"bor, v. t.

Defn: to make (a sound) with a tabor.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Tabor - A height. (1.) Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain, 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It is about 1,843 feet high. The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly extensive and grand. This is alluded to in Psalms 89:12; Jeremiah 46:18. It was here that Barak encamped before the battle with Sisera (q.v.) Judges 4:6. There is an old tradition, which, however, is unfounded, that it was the scene of the transfiguration of our Lord. (See HERMON.) "The prominence and isolation of Tabor, standing, as it does, on the border-land between the northern and southern tribes, between the mountains and the central plain, made it a place of note in all ages, and evidently led the psalmist to associate it with Hermon, the one emblematic of the south, the other of the north." There are some who still hold that this was the scene of the transfiguration (q.v.). (2.) A town of Zebulun (1 Chronicles 6:77). (3.) The "plain of Tabor" (1 Samuel 10:3) should be, as in the Revised Category:Version, "the oak of Tabor." This was probably the Allon-bachuth of Genesis 35:8.