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1 . A conspicuous mountain in Galilee, about seven miles east of Nazareth. It formed a boundary to Issachar and Zebulon. Its sides are well wooded, and on the summit is an irregular plain of about a mile in circuit, with ruins of fortifications. The height of it is 1,843 feet. Joshua 19: 22; Judges 4: 6-14; Judges 8: 18; Ps. 89: 12; Jer. 46: 18; Hosea 5: 1. It is now called Jebel et Tor, . Tradition makes this the mount of Transfiguration; but it is more probable that some part
of mount Hermon was chosen for the transfiguration. This has good moral associations (cf. Ps. 133: 3), and would be more private than Tabor.
2 . The 'plain of Tabor' in 1 Sam. 10: 3 should be read the 'oak of Tabor' as in the R.V.
3 . Levitical city in the tribe of Zebulun. 1 Chr. 6: 77. The list of Levitical cities in Joshua 21 does not contain this name. See CHESULLOTH.