Oak tree near Bethel, mentioned in Samuel's prophecy
Tabor
Named in 1 verse of 1 Samuel, first in 1 Samuel 10:3.
תָּבוֹרTabor
The name means “choice; purity; bruising.” Hitchcock's Bible Names, 1869
About Tabor Written by AI
Tabor is mentioned in 1Sa.10.3 as an oak tree near Bethel. It appears in the context of Samuel's prophetic message to Saul, who had been anointed as king over Israel. Samuel told Saul that he would meet three men by the oak of Tabor, and they would offer him two loaves of bread. This encounter was one of the signs given to Saul to confirm his divine appointment as king. The oak of Tabor served as a landmark in the region, but no further details about its significance are provided in the Bible.
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Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897
A height. (1.) Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain, 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It is about 1,843 feet high. The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly extensive and grand. This is alluded to in Ps. 89:12; Jer. 46:18. It was here that Barak encamped before the battle with Sisera (q.v.) Judg. 4:6-14. There is an old tradition, which, however, is unfounded, that it was the scene of the transfiguration of our Lord. (See HERMON.) “The prominence and isolation of Tabor, standing, as it does, on the border-land between the northern and southern tribes, between the mountains and the central plain, made it a place of note in all ages, and evidently led the psalmist to associate it with Hermon, the one emblematic of the south, the other of the north.” There are some who still hold that this was the scene of the transfiguration (q.v.).
(2.) A town of Zebulum (1 Chr. 6:77).
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(3.) The “plain of Tabor” (1 Sam. 10:3) should be, as in the Revised Version, “the oak of Tabor.” This was probably the Allon-bachuth of Gen. 35:8.
M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, third edition (1897), public domain, from CrossWire. Shown as written; its Scripture quotes are from older translations.
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Where the Bible names it
- 1 Samuel 10:3
Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
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