Tabor - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Tabor :  (noun)

1: a small drum with one head of soft calfskin [syn: tabour]

Based on WordNet 2.0

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.]

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Tabor : \Ta"bor\, v. t. To make (a sound) with a tabor.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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

Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:

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.



Based on Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [Bible_Dictionary]:

Tabor, choice; purity; bruising



Based on Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [Bible_Dictionary]:
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