(Mount) Tabor
תָּבוֹרStrong’s H8396tavor (ta-vor)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tavor is the Hebrew word usually translated “tabor”, “at tabor” and “like tabor”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.”
Meaning
- A town around the summit of Mount Tabor
- § Tabor = "mound"
How it's translated
- tabor 8
- at tabor 1
- like tabor 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 4
- Joshua 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 4:6And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
- Judges 4:12And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
- Judges 4:14And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
- Judges 8:18Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
- 1 Samuel 10:3Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
- 1 Chronicles 6:77Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:
Hebrew dictionary
תָּבוֹר tavor · (Mount) Tabor
§ Tabor = "mound" n pr mont a mountain in the plain of Esdraelon rising abruptly and insulated except for a narrow ridge on the west connecting it to the hills of Nazareth 2) a town around the summit of Mount Tabor
תָּבוֹר tavor · Tabor
§ Tabor = "mound" n pr mont the place of an oak tree which was on the homeward journey of Saul after he had been anointed by Samuel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tabor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TA'BOR, noun
[Eng. tap.]
A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife.
All definitions and other forms of “tabor”
TA'BOR, verb intransitive
To strike lightly and frequently.
- To play on a tabor or little drum.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.