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title: טַבּוּר — highest part · The Tanakh dictionary
description: טַבּוּר (2872), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: highest part. BDB 1906: highest part, centre. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# טַבּוּר

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«טַבּוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **highest part** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 2872 · **BDB:** טַבּוּר

### Glosses

the.center (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

highest part [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2872/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

highest part, centre [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2872/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] highest part, centre (according to 𝔊 𝔙 navel, so NH id., and טִיבּוּר, Aramaic טִיבּוּרָא, טִיבּוּרְיָא)—הִנֵּה עָם יֹרְדִים מֵעִם טַבּוּר הארץ Ju 9:37 behold people descending from the highest part of the land; ישְׁבֵי עַל־טַבּוּר הארץ Ez 38:12 those dwelling upon the navel of the earth, i.e. upon the mountainous country of Israel, central and prominent in the earth.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «טַבּוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2872/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 9:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.37/)

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וַיֹּ֨סֶף ע֣וֹד גַּעַל֮ לְדַבֵּר֒ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּה־עָם֙ יֽוֹרְדִ֔ים מֵעִ֖ם טַבּ֣וּר הָאָ֑רֶץ וְרֹאשׁ־אֶחָ֣ד בָּ֔א מִדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֵל֥וֹן מְעוֹנְנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.repeated again Gaal to speak and he.said there! a.people \[are\].coming.down from with the.center of the.land and a.company one \[is\].coming from.\[the\] direction of.\[the\].great.tree of.\[the\].soothsayer

*JPS 1917:* And Gaal spoke again and said: 'See, there come people down by the middle of the land, and one company cometh by the way of Elon-meonenim.'

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[Ezekiel 38:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.12/)

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לִשְׁלֹ֥ל שָׁלָ֖ל וְלָבֹ֣ז בַּ֑ז לְהָשִׁ֨יב יָדְךָ֜ עַל־חֳרָב֣וֹת נוֹשָׁבֹ֗ת וְאֶל־עַם֙ מְאֻסָּ֣ף מִגּוֹיִ֔ם עֹשֶׂה֙ מִקְנֶ֣ה וְקִנְיָ֔ן יֹשְׁבֵ֖י עַל־טַבּ֥וּר הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* to plunder plunder and to take.as.spoil spoil to turn hand your on waste.places inhabited and against a.people \[which.has.been\].gathered from nations \[which.has\].acquired livestock and property \[who\].dwell at the.center of the.earth

*JPS 1917:* to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth.

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