Tab'baoth (Heb. Tabbaoth', V'hvz^, rings [Gese- nius], or spots [Ftirst] ; Sept. Ta(i[3awSf v. r. TajiaiiSr and TajiwSr), one of the Nethinim whose descendants or family returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii, 43; Neh. vii, 46). B.C. ante 536.
Tab'bath (Heb. Tabbath', r.^L?, perh. celebrated [Gesenins]; Sept. Ta/idS' v. r. TajidSi), a place men- tioned in describing the flight of the Midianitish host after Gideon's night attack; they fled to Beth-shittah, to Zererath, to the brink of Abel-meholah on (5") Tab- bath (Judg. vii, 22). As all these places were in or near the Ghor, Tabbath is probably the present Tubulihat- Fahil, i. e. "Terrace of Fahil," a verj- striking natural bank, 600 feet in height, with a long horizontal and apparently flat top, which is embanked against the western face of the mountains east of the Jordan, and descends with a very steep front to the river (Robinson, Bihl. Res. iii, 325).
Tab'eal (Isa. vii, 6). See Tabeel, 1, Tab'eel (Heb. Taheel', ^iXD^ [in pause TabeaV, bxn:;:, Isa. vii, 6, A. V. " Tabeal'']',^ God is rjood; Sept. Ta/^^s()X), the name of two men. See also Tobiel.
1. The father of the unnamed person on whom Re- zin, king of Syria, and Pekah, king of Israel, proposed to bestow the crown of Judah in case they succeeded in dethroning Ahaz (Isa. vii, 6). B.C. ante 738. VCho " Tabeal's son" was is unknown, but it is conjectured that he was some factions and powerful Ephraimite (perhaps Zichri, 2 Chron. xxviii, 7), who promoted the war in the hope of this result. — Kitto. The Aramaic form of the name [see Tabrimmox], however, has been thought to favor the supposition that he was a Sj'rian in the arm}^ of Rezin. The Targum of Jonathan ren- ders the name as an appellative, "and we will make king in the midst of her him who seems good to us" (NDb "ia="n ",p T'"^). Rashi by Gematria turns the name into D{5'!3"i, Rimla, by which apparently he would understand Remaliah, — Smith.
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2. An officer of the Persian government in Samaria in the reign of Artaxerxes (Ezra iv, 7). B.C. 519. It lias been argued that he, too, was an Aramreaii, from the fact that the letter which he and his companions wrote to the king was in the Syrian or Aramajan lan- guage. Gesenius, however {Jeau, i, 280), thinks that he may have been a Samaritan. — Smith.
Tabel'lius (Ta/3e\\(0f), a Grrecized form (1 Esdr. ii, KJJ of the Heb. name (Ezra iv, 7) Tabkel (q. v.).
Tab'erah (Heb. Taherah', n"i"3ri, consiunption ; Sept. tjicri'iuicTjUuf), a place in the wilderness of Paran ; so called from the fact that " the tire of Jehovah burned" (niS'a) among the Israelites there in consequence of their complaints (Numb, xi, 3). It lay at the next sta- tion beyond Horeb, and must therefore be sought some- where in Wady Saal. See Exode. Keil argues {Com- ment- ad loc.) from the expression that it was " in the uttermost part of the camp," and from the omission of the name in Numb, xxxiii, that the place was identical with the station Kibroth-hattaavah next named; but he overlooks the fact that both these are separately mentioned in Deut. ix, 22.
Tabering (mssn'O; Sept. ipbiyyojxivai; Vulg. murmurantes), an obsolete word used in the A. V. of Nah. ii, 7 in the sense of drumming, or making regular sounds. The Hebrew word is derived from r]ri, "a timbrel," and the image which it brings before us in this passage is that of the women of Nineveh, led away into captivity, mourning with the plaintive tones of doves, and beating on their breasts in anguish, as wom- en beat upon their timbrels (comp. Psa. Ixviii, 25 [26J, where the same verb is used). The Sept. and Vulg., as above, make no attempt at giving the exact meaning. The Targum of Jonathan gives a word which, like the Hebrew, has the meaning of " tympanizantes." The A. v., in like manner, reproduces the original idea of the words. The " tabour" or " tabor" was a musical instru- ment of the drum type, which with the pipe formed the band of a country village. We retain a trace at once of the word and of the thing in the "tabourine" or " tambourine" of modern music, in the " tabret" of the A. V. and older English writers. To " tabour," accord- ingly, is to beat with loud strokes as men beat upon such an instrument. The verb is found in this sense in Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tamer Tamed (•' I would tabor her"), and answers with a singular felicity to the exact meaning of the Hebrew. — Smith. See Plump- tre, Bible Educator, iv, 210.
Tabernacle is the rendering, in the A. V., of the following Heb. and Gr. words: 1. ^f^X, ohel, the most frequent term, but often signifying and rendered a com- mon "tent;" 2. '{Ii'C'O, mishkdn, i\-ie distinctive term, alwaj's so rendered, except ("dwelling") in 1 Chron. vi, 32; Jobxviii, 21; xxi, 28; xxxix, (5; Psa. xxvi, 8; xlix, 11; Ixxiv, 7; Ixxxvii, 2; Isa. xxxii, 18; Jer. ix, 19; XXX, 8; li,30; Ezek. xxv, 4; Heb. i, 6; ("habita- tion") 2 Chron. xxix, 6; Psa. Ixxviii, 28; cxxxii, 5; Isa. xxii, 16 ; liv, 2 ; (" tent") Cant, i, 8 ; 3. "O [once T\'^i Lam. ii, 6], soh (Psa. Ixxvi, 2), ^^^p, sidldk (Lev. xxiii, 34; Deut. xvi, 13, 16; xxxi, 10; 2 Chron. viii. 13; Ezraiii, 4; Jobxxxvi, 29; Isa. iv, C; Amos ix, 11; Zech. xiv, 16, 18, 19), or r^lSp, sikhilh (Amos v, 26), all meaning a booth, as often rendered ; 4. aKtjvi'j, (tk)Ji'oq (2 Cor. v, 1, 4), or oK^vwfta (Acts vii, 46 [rather hai)- itation] ; 2 Pet. i, 13, 14), a tent. Besides occasional use for an ordinary dwelling, the term is specially emploj-ed to designate the first sacred edifice of the Hebrews prior to the time of Solomon ; fully called 13."'"a PflX, the tent of meeting, or (especially in Numb.) m^'il "Sll''?) ^nb- ernacle of the congregation (Sept. (TKr]vr) [1 Kings viii, 4, 6, (TK/jvw^a] Tov fiaprvpiov ; Philo, itpov <popi]r6v, Of}}, ii, 146; Josephus, ;t£ra0€po/[j£i'Of Kal avinnpivo-