Lexicon
תָּבוֹר
ta.vor
H8396
N:N--L Hebrew

(Mount) Tabor

10
Occurrences
7
Books
Hebrew
Language

ta.vor is a proper place name used for a mountain landmark, movements to and from it, and comparisons involving it.

The term is consistently a proper place name. The supplied verses place it in boundary description, travel and military movement, a reported killing, a prophetic comparison, and an image of a net spread over it; several clauses explicitly call it a mountain.

Senses in use

  1. Place name for a mountain landmark · dominant

    All supplied tokens are tagged Noun · Proper. In Joshua 19:22 the APB renders a boundary reaching “Mount Tabor”; in Judges 4:6 Barak is commanded to deploy there, and in Judges 4:14 he goes down from it with ten thousand men. The same place name also marks the oak in 1 Samuel 10:3, the location of men killed in Judges 8:18, and a mountain used for comparison in Jeremiah 46:18.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the name as “Mount Tabor” in boundary and movement clauses, while Jeremiah 46:18 has “Tabor among the mountains.” In 1 Chronicles 6:62 and Psalm 89:13, the supplied APB text does not visibly reproduce the name; Its specific rendering there is unclear.

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