CHISLOTH-TABOR (-nn ;-cnn ; Sept. Xa 0-EXu8aa, or [Alex.] XtzczeX69 13a5c.,5p ; Vulg. Ceseleth Thabor) is mentioned in Josh. xix. 12, as one of the towns on the southern border-line of the tribe of Zebulon. It has been sometimes accounted the same place as Chesulloth by Masius and Rosenmtiller among others. Robinson (Researches iii. iSz) affirms the identity, and Keil (on Joshua, Trans., p. 423) denies it. The two places were at least very near each other. The city men tioned in verse 22, and again in t Chron. vi. 77, as simply Tabor, is no doubt the same place as our Chisloth-Tabor. The name is itself suggestive of its position. Jarchi (in Keil) explains it to mean ilia sett lumbos Thaboris, in French les planes (So Stanley, P- 496, ' Loins or flanks of Tabor'), ' not the sum mit nor the lowest part of the mountain, but upon the slope somewhere near the centre, and on the front, in about the same situation as that of the loins in an animal.' Others (such as Simonis Ono mast., and Rosenrniiller) give a different turn to the meaning ; regarding the loins as the seat of strength, they render fia'ucia Thaboris, i. q.
' mentum ; as if the city were strongly fortified.
which is flanks in Lev. iv. 9, and loins, Ps. xxxviii. 7, is translated confidence in Prov. iii. 26. Furst (Lex. 614) and Gesenius (Thes. 7o2) com bine both meanings in their definitions. Pococke (ii. 65) mentions a village which he calls Zal, about' three miles from Tabor. This is by Robinson, Van de Velde (Map and p. 304), V. Raurner (124) and Ritter (Palest. and Syria, ii. 393), called Asa; probably,' says Robinson, ' the Chesulloth and Chisloth-Tabor of Joshua on the frontier of Zebulon and Issachar, the Chasalus of Eusebius and Jerome in the plain near Tabor (Onomast., .s. v. AxecreXtb9, Aschaseluth). and the Xaloth of Josephus situated in the great plain' (De Bell. yud., iii. 3. I ; De Vita, sec. 44). See also Dr. Zunz, On the Geography of Palestine from Yezvish Sources in Asher's Benj. of Tudela, vol. ii. p. 432 ; and Seetzen's Reisen (-lurch Syrien, at. s. w. iv. 31 1.— P. H.