excavation, it is difficult to make any clear dis- tinction between them. The Latins and Greeks have in recent years erected churches and mon- asteries on the sites of the earlier buildings, and the Latins have recovered the place of the Trans- figuration mentioned by abbot Daniel.
LlTlRATURl.— PJJF 3[em. i. 367, 388-391 ; de Vogu*, igliM de T. S. 363; GuSrin, Game, i. 143-K13; RoWnson, BJiP^ iii. SSlfl. ; Burckhardt, Travels in Si/ria, 1S22. p. 332 ft.; O. A. Smith, HGUL 384, 408, 417; Buhl, GAP 107 f., 216 1.; Bamabii, Le Mont Thalior. Q, W. WiLSON.
TABOR, The Oak of (AV The Plain op Tabor ; lian I'iSx ; -q 5/)Ds Qa^iip ; qnerciis Thabor), is mentioned (1 S 10') between Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah and the ' hill of God,' or Gibeah, as one of the points passed by Saul on his homeward journey after his anointing by Samuel. The site is unknown. Thenius emends, from Gn 35*, I'lai? 'k to rr\\y^ 'k ' Oak (terebinth) of Deborah' (Rachel's nurse). Thia tree is called in the Genesis passage AUon-bacuth, and Ewald and others identify it further with the palm (ijn) of Deborah mentioned in Jg 4". (Cf. Moore on Jg 4" ; Dillm. on Gn 35' ; Siegfried- Stade and Oxf. Eeh. Lex. s. |Wt<)-
C. W. Wilson.
TABRET (see art. Tabee) is AV tr. of <\n in Gn 31", 1 S 10" 18«, Is 5'= 248 3032^ Jer 31^ Ezk 28". The same Heh. word is tr. 'timbrel' in Ex 15**, Jg 11*", 2 S 6^ 1 Ch 138, Job 21'-, Pa 8P 149' 150*. The RV, strangely enough, follows this want of uniformity in rendering, except in 1 S 10° 18', where it substitutes ' timbrel for ' tabret.' It might have been well to drop both 'timbrel' and ' tabret,' neither of which conveys any clear sense to a modern ear, and adopt some such rendering as 'tambourine' or 'hand-drum.' The LXX always tr. in by Tii/ijrai'oi' except in Job 21'-, where we have \pa\Tripiov, and EzK 28", where a different Heb. text, has been followed. [This last ?H«y have been the case even in Job 21'-]. See, for a descrip- tion of the in, vol. iii. p. 462''.
The A V rendering of Job 17' ' aforetime I was it a tabret,' has arisen from a confusion of njii 'spitting' [fin-. Xe-/.] with "in 'tambourine.' The words n;rix d'id^ nrn, in parallelism with the preced- ing O'sy 9e'P^ 'JJ'srr (' I am made [lit. ' one hath made me'] a byword of the peoples'), mean 'I am become one to be spit on in tne face ' (RV ' an open abhorring'). See A. B. Davidson, ad loc, and cf. the notes of Dillm. and Dulim. The LXX reproducea njin by yiXois, ' a laughing-stock.'
J. A. Selbie.
TABRIMMON (ltel?o, 'Rimmon [linmman] is good or is wise ' [see I'ABEEL] ; B Ta^epifia, A Ta^ei-- pa7;^d, Luc. Ta/Sepe/tAidc). — The father of Benhadad, 1 K 15".
TACHES.— An old word of French origin (cf. attacker) used by AV to render the Heb. o'CT? klrdstm, which occurs only in P's description of the tabernacle (Ex 26«- "• '' 35" etc.). The Gr. rendering is /cpixoi, wliich denotes the rings set in eyelets at the edge of a sail for the ropes to pass through; Vulg. circuli, RV 'clasps.' The Heb. w^ord evidently signifies some form of hook or clasp like the Roman fibula (see Rich, Diet, o/ Bum. and Gr. Anliq. s.v.). Fifty 'taches' or clasps of gold, attached at equal distances along the edge of one set of tapestry curtains, fitted into the same number of loops along the edge of the second set, and ' coupled ' the two sets together. A similar arrangement of bronze clasps joined the two sets of hair curtains which formed the 'tent' (see Tabernacle, § vii. (a)). The veil which divided the tabernacle or ' dwelling ' into two parts, the Holy Place and the Most Holy, was susuended immediately underneath the line o'
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clasps, a detail of considerable significance for the dimensions of the tabernacle (see § vii. (c)).
A. R. S. Kennedy. TACKLING.— In Is 33=» 'Thy tackUn},'8 (-:S?n) are loosed,' the Heb. word plainly means a ship's ropes. And that was the ordinary meaning of the Eng. word ' Sickling ' about 1611, as in Shaks. KicK. III. IV. iv. 233—
* Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft.'
But the Eng. word wiis also used more comprehen- sively of the whole gearing, as in Ascham's Scholc- nuister, 65, ' Great shippes require costlie tack- ling.' And so it is used in Ac 27'° ' AVe cast out witli our own hands the tackling of the sliip ' (RVm ' furniture '). The Greek word (ffxcin)) is as vague, says Kendall, as the English ' furniture,' and may include any heavy littings that could be readily detached, or spare masts and spars. See Ships and Boat.s.
The word is of Scand. origin ; the U in ' tackle ' is the instrument, so that the tackle is that which takes hold of ; the ing is collective.
J. Hastings.
TADMOR (IK 9" [.so Kir?, AV, RVm ; Taraar in Kcthibk and RV ; B om., A Qep/jAS, Luc. QoSfilip], 2 Ch 8* B^ OoeSofiSp, A OeStidp, Luc. eeS/idp).— The Tamar of 1 Kings is believed by the present writer to be the same place as the ' Tadmor ' of 2 Chrunicles (see, however, art. Tamar ; G. A. Smith. HGHL' 270, n.- : Kittel, Kimifje, adloc).