Tabernacles
TAB'ERNACLES, FEAST OF, one of the three greatest Jewish feasts. The law for it is laid down in Lev 23:34-43, Num 29:12-40. It was designed to commemorate the long tent-life of the Israelites during …
Tabernacles, Feast Of,
TAB'ERNACLES, FEAST OF, one of the three greatest Jewish feasts. The law for it is laid down in Lev 23:34-43, Num 29:12-40. It was designed to commemorate the long tent-life of the Israelites during …
Tabernacles, The Feast Of
(Exodus 23:16) (“the feast of ingathering”), the third of the three great festivals: of the Hebrews, which lasted from the 15th till the 22d of Tisri.
Tabitha
(in Greek called Dorcas), gazelle, a disciple at Joppa. She was distinguished for her alms-deeds and good works. Peter, who was sent for from Lydda on the occasion of her death, prayed over the dead …
Table
TA'BLE. The table of ancient times was nothing but a circular skin or piece of leather spread upon the matted or carpeted floor, and this, at home as well as by the way, answered for table and cloth.…
Tables
(Mark 7:4) means banqueting-couches or benches, on which the Jews reclined when at meals. This custom, along with the use of raised tables like ours, was introduced among the Jews after the Captivity…
Tables, To Serve.
TA'BLES, TO SERVE. Acts 6:2. This expression may denote either actual attendance upon the gathering and distribution of food for the poor, or attention to the pecuniary affairs of the church. The wor…
Tablet.
TAB'LET. See Book, Table.
Tabor
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 an…
Tabor, The Plain Of.
TABOR, THE PLAIN OF. This should rather be the "oak" or "terebinth of Tabor." It is mentioned only in 1 Sam 10:3. What is meant by "Tabor" it is impossible to say. It has been suggested that "the oak…
Tabret,
TAB'RET, See Timbrel.
Tabriiion
TAB'RIIION (Rimmon is kind), the father of Benhadad I., king of Syria, a contemporary of Asa, king of Judah. 1 Kgs 16:18.
Tabrimon
Good is Rimmon, the father of Benhadad, king of Syria (1 Kings 15:18).
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 …
Taches
Hooks or clasps by which the tabernacle curtains were connected (Ex. 26:6, 11, 33; 35:11).
Tachmonite,
TACH'MONITE, a corruption for "Hachmonite." the appellation of Jashobeam. 2 Sam 23:8; cf. 1 Chr 11:11.
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 s…
Tackling.
TACK'LING. Isa 33:23; Acts 27:19. Strictly, in the former passage, it is used for the ropes attached to the mast; in the latter it is used loosely, and imports the sails, cordage, baggage, and indeed…
Tahan
(camp), a descendant of Ephraim. (Numbers 26:35) In (1 Chronicles 7:25) he appears as the son of Telah.
Tahanites
TA'HANITES, the descendants of Tahan. Num 26:35.
Tahanites, The
(Numbers 26:35) [Tahan]
Tahapanes.
TAHAP'ANES. Jer 2:16. See Tahpanhes.
Tahapenes
secret temptation
Tahath
the name of a desert station of the Israelites between Makheloth and Tarah. (Numbers 33:26) The site has not been identified. (station).
Tahpanhes
TAH'PANHES, a city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, in Lower Egypt, and called Tahapanes and Tehaphnehes; possibly the Hanes of Isa 30:4; Jer 2:16; Jer 43:7-9; Jer 44:1; Jer 46:14; Eze 30:18. The n…
Tahpanhes, Tehaphnehes, Tahapanes
a city of Egypt, mentioned in the time of the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel. The name is evidently Egyptian, and closely resembles that of the Egyptian queen Tahpenes. It was evidently a town of lowe…
Tahpenes
The wife of Pharaoh, who gave her sister in marriage to Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11:19, 20).
Tahrea
(cunning), son of Micah and grandson of Mephibosheth. (1 Chronicles 9:41) (B.C. after 1057.)
Tahtim-hodshi
The land of the newly inhabited, (2 Sam. 24:6). It is conjectured that, instead of this word, the reading should be, “the Hittites of Kadesh,” the Hittite capital, on the Orontes. It was apparently s…
Tahtim-hodshi, The Land Of.
TAH'TIM-HOD'SHI, THE LAND OF. This is admitted to be an inaccurate text, but neither the Septuagint nor the Syriac version throws light on the true reading. The land was visited by Joab while taking …