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tabor

 

  7  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tabor  \Ta"bor\,  n.  [OF.  tabor,  tabour,  F.  tambour;  cf  Pr 
  tabor,  tanbor,  Sp  &  Pg  tambor,  atambor  It  tamburo  all 
  fr  Ar  &  Per.  tamb?r  a  kind  of  lute,  or  giutar,  or  Per. 
  tab[=i]r  a  drum.  Cf  {Tabouret},  {Tambour}.]  (Mus.) 
  A  small  drum  used  as  an  accompaniment  to  a  pipe  or  fife,  both 
  being  played  by  the  same  person.  [Written  also  {tabour},  and 
  {taber}.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tabor  \Ta"bor\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tabored};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Taboring}.]  [Cf.  OF  taborer.]  [Written  also  {tabour}.] 
  1.  To  play  on  a  tabor,  or  little  drum. 
 
  2.  To  strike  lightly  and  frequently. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tabor  \Ta"bor\,  v.  t. 
  To  make  (a  sound)  with  a  tabor. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tabor 
  n  :  a  small  drum  with  one  head  of  soft  calfskin  [syn:  {tabour}] 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Tabor,  IA  (city,  FIPS  76935) 
  Location:  40.89382  N,  95.67209  W 
  Population  (1990):  957  (395  housing  units) 
  Area:  3.3  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  51653 
  Tabor,  SD  (town,  FIPS  62820) 
  Location:  42.94766  N,  97.65968  W 
  Population  (1990):  403  (194  housing  units) 
  Area:  0.8  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  57063 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  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  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.  (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  Zebulum  (1  Chr.  6:77). 
 
  (3.)  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. 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Tabor,  choice;  purity;  bruising




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