Tabor
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A height.
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 Ps 89:12; Jer 46:18. It was here that Barak encamped before the battle with Sisera (q.v.) Judg 4:6-14. There is an old tradition, which, however, is unfounded, that it was the scene of the transfiguration of our Lord. “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.).
A town of Zebulum (1 Chr 6:77).
The “plain of Tabor” (1 Sam 10:3) should be, as in the Revised Version, “the oak of Tabor.” This was probably the Allon-bachuth of Gen 35:8.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ta'-ber, tar'-bor (tabhor; Codex Vaticanus Thachcheia; Codex Alexandrinus Thabor): One of the towns in the territory of Zebulun, given to the Merarite Levites (1 Chr 6:77). The parallel list in Josh 21:24 f contains no name like this. There is no indication of its position. Some have thought that it may correspond to Daberath in the territory of Issachar (21:28), now represented by Deburiyeh on the western slope of Mt. Tabor; others that it may be the mountain itself; and yet others that it may be a city on the mountain, which probably was occupied from very early times. There is a Tabor mentioned as on the border of Issachar (Josh 19:22); but that is almost certainly the mountain. It has been suggested that Tabor in 1 Chr 6:17 may be a contraction of Chisloth-tabor (Josh 19:12), the modern Iksal, 3 miles West of the mountain. No certainty is possible.
W. Ewing
See also
Place Tabor (Jos 19,22) Place Tabor (1 Kron 6,77) Place Tabor (1 Sam 10,3)
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