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Reference: Tabering
Easton
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.
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Fausets
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.
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Smith
Tabering,
an obsolete English word used in the Authorized Version of
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.