Bible Location
Meaning: choice; purity; bruising · 5 cross references · Modern-day map available
Tabor is the prominent isolated mountain rising at the edge of the Jezreel and Galilean regions. It is important because it appears in battle traditions, poetic imagery, and prophetic comparison as one of the most recognizable mountains in the land. First appears in Josh 19:22.1
Place meaning
choice; purity; bruising
Coordinates
32.69, 35.39
First appears
Josh 19:22
AI summary: Tabor matters because of both its shape and its associations. Judges ties it to Barak and the conflict with Sisera, giving it military significance in one of Israel's great deliverance stories. Psalms, Jeremiah, and Hosea then use the mountain's prominence to evoke majesty, conspicuousness, or indictment. The cross references present Tabor as a landmark mountain where geography, battle memory, and poetic force all combine.1
Place meaning
choice; purity; bruising
Latitude
32.69
Longitude
35.39
Bible references
5
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. (See HERMON.) “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.). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.