The I.XX readinjfs are as follows : —
Jos 122' B om., A e«>«j;, Luo. Biactrnx.
„ 1711 _, do., „ T«.ix. If <lo.
„ 2125 „ T.>«x, „ e««.ix, M do.
Jg I*' „*«••«, „ 'E«((«.««i, „ •£«/)«.«•» (?■^:x=•nK
(Kedpathl).
„ 6i« „ e<.««x. .. 0""x, » ei.xix-
1 K 4" „ om., „ e««.oj:, „ A;e«^
1 Ch 729 „ e«A^«, „ e««.«x-
LrrKRATCBK.— Ou^rin, Samarie, 11. 228 ; PEF ile-n. 11. 48, 68; O. A. Smith, HGUL 38«, 389; Baedckcr-Socin, Pal.'' 241 Robinson. SAP* U. 816. lU. 117. C. W. \^ ILSON.
TAAXATHSHILOH
TABERNACLE
653
TAANATH-SHILOH (.-f? n;xn; B Gi^i-affa ral TeWrjjd, A tr)i>a0jr]\^ ; Luc. ©ij^'affaffTjXii). — A town on the N.E boundan' of Ephraim, mentioned between Miclimethath and Janoah (Jos 16"). Eusfbins and Jerome (Onom. g. Or)fa.0) state that Taniiatli-sliiloh was 10 lioman miles E. of Nea polls on the road to the Jordan, and called in their day Thena. This is probably the Tliena (0/>a) men- tioned by Ptolemy (v. xvi. 5) as one of the towns of Samaria. It was identified bj Van de Vclde with yVina about 7 miles from .^riWiw (Xeapolis), and 2 miles N. of yVtnCni (Janoah), The niins, foundations, caves, cisterns, and rock-hewn tombs are on one of the liimian roads leadin" from Ncapolis to the Jordan Valley {PEF Mem. ii. 232. 24,)).
The Talmuds explain the word Taartath by 'threshold,' and hold Taanath-shiloh to have been a long, narrow strip of land belonging to Joseph which ran southwards into the territory of Ben- jamin, and included the site of Shiloh.
C. W. WlI.SON.
TABAOTH, 1 Es 5^^ i*" (B Ta,3aue, A Ta/3u>9), and TABBAOTH (n-y:::), Ezr ?•» (B Ta^wO, A TaplSaud, Luc. To/iauS) = Xeh '^ (B Fo/SiiO, A and Luc. as before). — The enonym of a f.amily of Nethiniui who are said to uave returned with Zerubbabel.
TABBATH (n;?; B Ta,9d9, A TaBie-, Tebbath).— The Midiuiiites, after (lideon's night attack, tied to Hethshittah, towards Zererali, as far as the iHjrder of Abel-meholah by Tabbath (.Ig 7"). No trace of the site of Tabbath li.as yet been found, but it must have been in the .Jordan Valley, and probably not far from the spot, to the south of liethshcan, where the hills of Samaria approach the river. C. W. Wilson.
TABEEL (S!<:p ' Ood is good ' or [Winckl.] ' God is wise' ; the pointing Sx;? in Is 7" m.a}- be simply due to pause [01s., Kiinig], or, more prolialily, may be designed to suggest the .sense ' good for nothing ' [>>< neg. ; go Del., Dillm., Niild., Duhm, Stade, .\Lirti, and Orf. Hrb. Lex.] ; LXX TotoiX).— 1. See Kkzin, p. 267*. 2. A Persian otlicial in Samaria who was one of the parties to the letter to Artaxerxes, which was designed to hinder the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, Ezr 4'.
J. A. SKi.mi;.
TABELLIUS (Ta^SAXios), 1 Es 2" (LXX '») = Tabecl, Ezr 4'.
TABER.— Only in Nah 2', in the description of the destruction of Nineveh, when IIuzzAB 'is carried away, and her handmaids mourn as with the voice of doves, tabering (Amer. KV 'beating') upon their breasts' [lit. ' hearts '; r-j^V-Vi' niEcr.-:]. Heating the breast was a f.ainiliar Oriental custom in mourning (see the illustrati(m in Ball's Li^/it from the En.it, n. 119, and cf. Is 32'- [RV, but the text is doubtful]). The word liere u.sed means lit. 'drumming' (cf. Ps 68-", its only other occurrence, and see illustration in vol. iii. p. 462''). The L.\X ^Ocfyi^tvat implies a re.iding n^rsr';.';, which is used in Is 29^ of the voice of a wailing woman. Stade i» inclined to prefer this to the MT.
The En^liuh word * tabcr* meant a amall dmm, usually accompanying a pipe, both instruments bcinjf nlayed Ijy the Banie performer. Other fonna are ' tabor,' ' taltour.' and * tambour ; and dim. forma are 'tabret* and 'tambourine.* The words are oriffinally Arabic, and entered the Knj^lish lant^iiage through old i*rench, a step between French mid Arabic being the Spanish. Tor the subst. cf. Shaks. WinliT't TaU, IV. Iv. 183—' It yon did but hear the pe<ilar at the door, vou would never dance again after a tabor and pipe.' The verb U rarer, d. Chaucer, iioad Women, ai4 —
'In your eourt is many a losengeour, . . . That tubouren in your eres many a souD, Hi^ht after hir inia^inacioun.'
J. A. Selbik.
TABERAH (-nj-iB ; LXX 'Ei-Tru/jio-MdO-— A station in Israel's journeyings in the wilderness of Paran (Nu 11', I)t Q-'). Its name TnVcrah ( = ' burning or ])lace of burning ') is said to have been given to it ' because the lire of the Lord l^urnt among them ' (Nu 11' [prob. E]). The place, which is not named in the itinerary of Nu 33, luis not been identified.
TABERNACLE.—
L The Tabernacle of the oldest sources. U. The Tabernacle of the priestly writers. The literary
sources. iii. The nomenclature of the Tabernacle. iv The fundamental conception of the Sanctuary in P.
Nature and gradation of the materials employed in its
construction. ▼. General arran'.;cment and symmetry 0( the Sanctuary.
The Court of the Dwelling. Ti. The fvirniture of the Court— (a) the Altar of Burnt- offering ; ib) the Littver. vii. The Tabernacle proper — (a) the Curtains and Coverings ;
(/>) the wooden Framework ; (c) llic anangcment of