Tabering
Tabering
(; Sept. ; Vulg. murmurantes), an obsolete word used in the A. V. of Nah 2:7 in the sense of drumming, or making regular sounds. The Hebrew word is derived from , a timbrel, and the image which it brings before us in this passage is that of the women of Nineveh, led away into captivity, mourning with the plaintive tones of doves, and beating on their breasts in anguish, as women beat upon their timbrels (comp. Psa 68:25 [26], where the same verb is used). The Sept. and Vulg., as above, make no attempt at giving the exact meaning. The Targum of Jonathan gives a word which, like the Hebrew, has the meaning of tympanizantes. The A.V., in like manner, reproduces the original idea of the words. The tabour or tabor was a musical instrument of the drum type, which with the pipe formed the band of a country village. We retain a trace at once of the word and of the thing in the tabourine or tambourine of modern music, in the tabret of the A.V. and older English writers. To tabour, accordingly, is to beat with loud strokes as men beat upon such an instrument. The verb is found in this sense in Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tamer Tamed (I would tabor he), and answers with a singular felicity to the exact meaning of the Hebrew. See Plumptre, Bible Educator, 4:210.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Tabering
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.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Tabering
Nah 2:7; Nineveh’s maids “tabering upon their breasts,” i.e. beating on them as on a tambourine. The tabor, tabret, or timbrel is the tambourine, a musical instrument beaten as a drum.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Tabering
Tabering. Nah 2:7. An old English word, meaning “to beat as a taber” or “tabret,” a small drum beaten with one stick.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Tabering
Tabering. An obsolete English word used in the Authorized Version of Nah 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.