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Taber, Tabering
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ta'-ber ((toph) to strike a timbrel)
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
playing on a small drum or tabret. In Nahum
2:7 , where alone it occurs, it means beating on the breast, as players beat
on the tabret.
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
An obsolete English word used in the Authorized Version
of ( Nahum
2:7 ) The Hebrew word connects itself with toph, "a timbrel." The Authorized
Version reproduces the original idea. The "tabour" or "tabor" was a musical instrument
of the drum type which with the pipe formed the band of a country village. To
"tabour," accordingly, is to beat with loud strokes, as men beat upon such an
instrument.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ta'-ber (taphaph, "to strike a timbrel" ((Psalms
68:25)):
The word is used only once in the King James Version, namely, in the exceedingly
graphic account of the capture of Nineveh given in Nahum
2:7. The queen (perhaps the city personified) is dishonored and led into ignominious
captivity, followed by a mourning retinue of "maids of honor" who taber upon,
that is, beat violently, their breasts. Such drumming on the breasts was a gesture
indicative of great grief (Luke
18:3).
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