Tabor. [Ta'bor]
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 itIsaiah 1:1is 1,843 feet. Joshua 19:22; Judges 1:4-14; Judges 8:18; Psalms 89:12; Jeremiah 46:18; Hosea 5:1. It is now called Jebel et Tor, 32 41' N, 35 23' E. 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. Psalms 133:3), and would be more private than Tabor.
2. The 'plain of Tabor' in 1 Samuel 10:3 should be read the 'oak of Tabor' as in the R.V.
3. Levitical city in the tribe of Zebulun. 1 Chronicles 6:77. The list of Levitical cities in Joshua 1:21 does not contain this name. See CHESULLOTH.