TABOR (ta'bOr), (Heb. triw-bore').
1. A mountain on the confines of Zebulun and Naphtali, standing out in the northeast border of the plain of Esdraelon, the name of which ap pears among Greek and Roman writers in the forms of Itabyrion and Atabyrion, and which is now known by the name of Jebel Tur. It is men tioned in Josh. xix:22; Judg. iv:6; viii:18; Ps. lxxxix :12 ; Jer. xlvi:t8 ; Hos. v :1. Mount Tabor stands out alone and eminent above the plain, with all its fine proportions from base to summit displayed at one view. It lies at the distance of two hours and a quarter south of Nazareth. Ac cording to the barometrical measurements of Schubert, the height of Tabor above the level of the sea is seventeen hundred and forty-eight Paris feet, and thirteen hundred and ten Paris feet above the level of the plain at its base. Seen from the southwest, it presents a semi-globular ap pearance; but from the northwest, it more re sembles a truncated cone. By an ancient path,
which winds considerably, one may ride to the fore and long after (Polybius, v, 7o, 6; Joseph. Antiq. xiv, 6, 3; De Bell. Ind. i, 8, 7; ii, 2o, r; iv, r, 8; Vita, sec. 37) ; and the tradition itself cannot be traced back earlier than towards the end of the fourth century. (Robinson, Bibl. Re searches, iii, 210-227 ; Lord Nugent, Lands, Clas sical and Sacred, ii, 198-2o4 ; Schubert, Morgen land, iii, 174-18o; Burckhardt, Syria, pp. 332-336; Stephens, ii, 317-19; Elliot, ii, 364.) 2. Tabor is also the name of a grove of oaks in the vicinity of Benjamin, in I Sam. x:3, the topography of which chapter is usually much em barrassed by the groundless notion that Mount Tabor is meant.
3. A Levitical city in Zebulun, situated upon Mount Tabor (1 Chron.