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Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ares,foxes, and other kinds of game abound.Porter speaks of seeing jackals, wolves,and a panther while he was visiting Ta-bor. The mountain has a flat summit alittle less than a quarter of a mile longand an eighth of a mile wide. Twomonasteries of comparatively moderndate occupy the top of the hill, one be-longing to the Greeks and the other tothe Latins. There are also ruins of tow-ers, fortifications, vaults, cisterns, andother structures of various periods, Jew-ish, Greek, Roman, Christian, Saracenic,Frank, and Turk, blended together ina confused mass. The view from thesummit of Tabor is the best in all Cen-tral Palestine. To the north and eastare Mount Hermon, the Sea of Galilee,the mountains of Bashan and Gilead ;to the south and west, the great plainof Esdraelon, Gilboa, Carmel, and theMediterranean. Standing on this spot,the traveller sees why Tabor was thegathering-place of the northern tribes,and can trace out the great battlefieldsbelow. 2, A city in Zebulun, assigned to the
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TAB TAD Levites. 1 Chr. 6 : 77. Probably thesame as Chisloth-tabor, which see.TABOR, THE PLAIN OF. This should rather be the oak orterebinth of Tabor. It is mentionedonly in 1 Sam. 10 : 3. What is meantby Tabor it is impossible to say. Ithas been suggested that the oak ofTabor was the same as the Allon-bachuth the oak under which Deborahwas buried. Gen. 35 : 8. But Conderproposes to identify this Tabor with el-Bukeia, a plain south of Jerusalem. TABRET. See Timbrel. TABRIttON (Rimmon is kind),the father of Benhadad I., king of Syria,a contemporary of Asa, king of Judah.1 Kgs. 15 : 18. TACHES were hooks or clasps ofgold and copper, used in connecting thecurtains of the tabernacle. Ex. 26 : 6,11. TACHMONITE, a corruption forHachmonite, the appellation of Jasho-beam. 2 Sam. 23 : 8; cf. 1 Chr. 11 : 11. TACKLING. Isa. 33:23; Acts27 : 19. Strictly, in the former pas-sage, it is used for the ropes attachedto the mast: in the latter it is usedloosely, and imports the sails, cordage,baggage, a

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