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Meaning and etymology of the name Tabor
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Tabor 
Tabor is the name of a mountain on the border of Zebulun and Issachar, south-west of the Sea of Galilee (Joshua 19:22); a town of unknown location (Judges 8:18); a Levitical town in Zebulun (1 Chronicles 6:77); and a place near Bethel, known for a famous oak (1 Samuel 10:3).
It's not clear where the name Tabor comes from or what it means. There's no word in Hebrew that comes close to this name. The letter taw with which the name begins may be a remnant of a grammatical form, namely the imperfect of a verb. The question is: which verb?
Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names takes the name Tabor from the verb  (barar), meaning to purge, purify or clean. But then Jones translates this verb erroneously with to sever, and the name with Stone-Quarry. Perhaps Jones is aware of a otherwise unknown verb, or the verb exists in other languages and neither Jones nor BDB Theological Dictionary nor any of the other sources used mention it, but in the Bible and to a Hebrew audience, the name Tabor wouldn't bring to mind a stone quarry.
Another possibility is the verb  (ba'ar), meaning to declare, make plain. This root curiously yields derivations that all have to do with pits or water wells. Derivation (bor) means pit, cistern, well. A possible by-form of this verb is  (bur) meaning declare, explain, prove.
The name Tabor may mean Purifying or Declaring.
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