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Tabor is the name of a mountain on the border of Zebulun and Issachar, south-west of the Sea of Galilee; a town of unknown location (Judg 8:18); a Levitical town in Zebulun (1 Chr 6:77); and a place near Bethel, known for a famous oak (1 Sam 10:3).

The name Tabor comes possibly from baar (ba'ar 194), declare, make plain. This root curiously yields derivations that all have to do with pits or water wells. Derivation baar (bor 194e) means pit, cistern, well. A possible by-form of this verb is bur (bur 221) meaning declare, explain, prove.
Another possibility is the verb barar (barar 288) meaning purge, purify, choose, cleanse, try.

The name Tabor may mean Declarations.



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