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Tabor is a mountain in the Bible, about 101 km (63 miles) north of Jerusalem. The King James Version names it in 1 verse, 1 Chronicles 6:77. The King James Version also gives the name Tabor to 1 other place, listed on this page.
Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain, 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It is about 1,843 feet high. The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly extensive and grand. This is alluded to in Ps. 89:12; Jer. 46:18. It was here that Barak encamped before the battle with Sisera (q.v.) Judg. 4:6-14. There is an old tradition, which, however, is unfounded, that it was the scene of the transfiguration of our Lord. “The prominence and isolation of Tabor, standing, as it does, on the border-land between the northern and southern tribes, between the mountains and the central plain, made it a place of note in all ages, and evidently led the psalmist to associate it with Hermon, the one emblematic of the south, the other of the north.” There are some who still hold that this was the scene of the transfiguration (q.v.).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
A tree, named in 1 verse.
Tabor is a mountain about 101 km (63 miles) north of Jerusalem. BibleLectio shows it on a painted map of the Bible’s world, with every verse that names it.
The King James Version names Tabor in 1 verse, in 1 book. It also gives the name Tabor to 1 other place.
The verses that name Tabor also name Merari and Zebulun.