playing on a small drum or tabret. In Na 2:7, where alone it occurs, it means beating on the breast, as players beat on the tabret.

Na 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.

Tabering,

an obsolete English word used in the Authorized Version of

Na 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.