Tabret (a contraction of tahoret, for " taboring" [see Tabeu]) is the rendering in the A. V. of the two kin- dred words t\t\, toph (Gen. xxxi, 27; 1 Sam. x, 5; xviii, 6; Isa. v, 12; xxiv, 8; xxx, 32; Jer. xxxi, 4;
Modern Oriental lustruineuts of the Drum kind.
Ezek. xxviii, 13; elsewhere "timbrel") and nsin. to- pheth (Job xvii, 6), which both mean a musical instru- ment of the drum kind (from ^iSS^, to beat). This sort of music has always been in great request, both in clas- sical and sacred scenes, especially on festive occasions. See JIusical Instruments. Especially has that form of the drum known as the tambourine been in vogue, particularly for female performers. See Timbkel.
Tambourine Players (fi'om Herculaneum).
Tab'rimon (Heb. Tabrimmon', "jiaiSL:, good is Pinnnon ; Sept. Tajitpt^id v. r. TafSfvpntjun ; Vulg. Ta- bremon), the father of Benhadad I, king of Syria in the reign of Asa (1 Kings xv, 18). B.C. ante 928. The name is in honor of the Syrian god (comp. the analogous forms Tobiel, Tobiah, and the PhoBnician Tabaram [Gesenius, Mon. P/ian. p. 456J). See Rim-
MON.
Tabula Clericorum, the catalogue of the clergy so called by Augustine.
Tabula Dei, a Latin term for the Table of the Loud (q. v.).
Tabula Eucharistiae, the Christian altar.
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Tabiila Pa- ds (tab/ ft of peace), A term ap- plied to the Oscr- LATOKIUM (q. v.), an ornament by ■which the kiss of peace was given to tiie faithful in niediicval times.
Tabiiia I'acis, or Ujciilatur.uai.
Tachash. See Bai)gi:u.
Taclie (D";|!?, ket-es; Sept, KpiKog; Vulg. circulus, fibula'). The word thus rendered occurs only in the description of the structure of the tabernacle and its liftings (Exod. xxvi, 6, 11, 33; xxxv, 11; xxxvi, 13; xxxix, 33), and has usually been thought to indicate the small liooks by which a curtain is suspended to the rings whereon it hangs, or connected vertically, as in the case of the vail of the Holy of Holies, with the loops of another curtain. The history of the English word is philologically interesting, as presenting points of contact with many different languages. The Gaelic and Breton branches of the Celtic family give tac, or tach, in the sense of a nail or hook. The latter mean- ing ajtpears in the attaccare, s/uccare, of Italian ; in the attacker, detacher, of French. On the other hand, in the tak of Dutch, and the Zacke of German, we have a word of like sound and kindred meaning. Our Anglo- Saxon taccan and English take (to seize as with a hook ?) are probably connected with it. In later use the word has slighth' altered both its form and meaning, and the tack is no longer a hook, but a small flat-headed nail (comp. Diez, Roman. Worterb. s. v. ■' Tacco"). — Smith.
The philological relations of the Hebrew word are likewise interesting. It comes from the obscure root O^p, kai-ds, which occurs oidy in Isa. xlvi, 1 (•' stoop- eth," Sept. avviTpijii] ; Vulg. contritiis est) as a syno- nym of "'ns (" boweth down") in the parallel hemistich, and is therefore understood by Gesenius and Flirst to sig- nify to bend, or by Miihlau to be round (like "l^p). The only derivatives, besides the proper name Kiros (DT'p, Neh. vii, 47) or Kerns (Dip, Ezra ii, 4'4), are the term in question and pb"lp, karsol, the ankle (occurring only in
the dual, "feet," 2 Sam. xxii, 37 ; Psa. xviii, 3G [37]). Prof. Paine (author of The Tabernacle, etc.), in af)rivate note, ingenious- ly traces the con- nection between these two ob-
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Naturnl type (2) of the tache" or keies 3_..„_^ .. ■>, „,„„. (3) in the " ankle" or kur.iOl (1). agram w ill clear-
ly illustrate. As the loops are explicith' stated to have been in the selraf/e of the curtains, the " taches," if meant as hooks to join them edgewise, would present the appearance in tlie annexed cut, which is substantially the representa- tion of those interpreters who have adopted this idea. Now, to say nothing for the present of the gap thus left in the roof, we find that these " taches," being exactly fifty for each set of "curtains," bear no special numeri- cal relation to the general size of the curtains them- selves, the edges so joined l)eing in one case thirty and in the other twenty-eiglit cubits long; whereas all the other numbers and dimensions about the building have definite proportions to each other. Nor, if the sixth or extra breadth of the goats'-hair cloth was sewed in the ordinar}^ way like the other five, can we divine any good reason for resorting to this singular method of joining the remaining selvages.
There are other and still graver diflieuliies in the ordinary plan of connecting these sheets, which would immediately be revealed in the actual attempt at reconstruc- tion, and will be anticipated !'■ any one familiar with tent arcln tecture.
('(.) The '"vail" hung exacilx under the "taches" (Exod. xxvi, 33). Hut as the colored sheets (which of course must have been innermost) were each twenty cu- bits wide and twenty-eight cubits ThcTabenuK-le "t'ln-- long, if they were spread thus com- tains' as joined by bined over the ridge-pole, the silt- the "loops" and ure between them which these ''""ches," according ,,,,,,„ , , , . to Kiggeiibach and