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inhabited during the intervening Period that is in the days of Christ. Tabor, therefore, could not
have been the Mount of Transfiguration [see Hermon]; for when it is said that Jesus took his disciples
“up into a high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them (Matthew 17:1,2) we must
understand that he brought them to the summit of the mountain, where they were alone by
themselves.
Tabor, The Plain Of
This is an incorrect translation, and should be THE Oak OF Tabor, Tabor. It is mentioned in
(1 Samuel 10:3) only, as one of the points in the homeward journey of Saul after his anointing by
Samuel.
Tabret
[Timbrel, Tabret]
Tabrimon
(properly Tabrimmon, i.e. good is Rimmon, the Syrian god) the father of Ben-hadad I., king of
Syria in the reign of Asa. (1 Kings 15:18) (B.C. before 928.)
Tache
The word thus rendered occurs only in the description of the structure of the tabernacle and its
fittings, (Exodus 26:6,11,33; 35:11; 36:13; 39:33) and appears to indicate the small hooks by which
a curtain is suspended to the rings from which it hangs, or connected vertically, as in the case of
the veil of the holy of holies, with the loops of another curtain.
Tachmonite, The
“The Tachmonite that sat in the seat,” chief among David’s captains, (2 Samuel 23:8) Isa in
1Chr 11:11 Called “Jashobeam an Hachmonite,” or, as the margin gives it, “son of Hachmoni.”
Kennicott has shown that the words translated “he that sat in the seat” are a corruption of Jashobeam,
and that “the Tachmonite” is a corruption of the “son of Hachmoni,” which was the family or local
name of Jashobeam. Therefore he concludes “Jashobeam the Hachmonite” to have been the true
reading.
Tadmor
(city of palms), called “Tadmor in the wilderness,” is the same as the city known to the Greeks
and Romans under the name of Palmyra. It lay between the Euphrates and Hamath, to the southeast
of that city, in a fertile tract or oasis of the desert. Being situated at a convenient distance from both
the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, it had great advantages for caravan traffic. It was built
by Solomon after his conquest of Hamath-zobah. (1 Kings 9:18; 2 Chronicles 8:4) As the city
is-nowhere else mentioned in the Bible, it would be out of place to enter into a detailed history of
it. In the second century A.D. it seems to have been beautified by the emperor Hadrian. In the
beginning of the third century—211-217 A.D.— it became a Roman colony under Caracalla.
Subsequently, in the reign of Gallienus, the Roman senate invested Odenathus, a senator of Palmyra,
with the regal dignity, on account of his services in defeating Sapor, king of Persia. On the
assassination of Odenathus, his wife, Zenobia, seems to have conceived the design of erecting
Palmyra into an independent monarchy; and in prosecution of this object, she for a while successfully
resisted the Roman arms. She was at length defeated and taken captive by the emperor Aurelian,
A.D. 273, who left a Roman garrison in Palmyra. This garrison was massacred in a revolt; and
Aurelian punished the city by the execution not only of those who were taken in arms, but likewise
of common peasants, of old men, women and children. From this blow Palmyra never recovered,
though there are proofs of its having continued to be inhabited until the downfall of the Roman
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