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Mount Tabor, sometimes spelled Mount Thabor (Hebrew: הר תבור, romanized: Har Tavor; Arabic: جبل طابور), is a large hill of biblical significance in Lower Galilee, northern Israel, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 18 kilometres (11 miles) west of the Sea of Galilee.
Mount Tabor (575 metres or 1,886 feet high) is the traditional location. The earliest identification of the Mount of Transfiguration as Tabor is by Origen in the 3rd century. It is also mentioned by St. Cyril of Jerusalem and St. Jerome in the 4th century. [1] It is later mentioned in the 5th-century Transitus Beatae Mariae Virginis.
"Givat HaMoreh" (Moreh Hill) south of Mount Tabor. Givat HaMoreh (Hebrew: גבעת המוֹרֶה, Arabic: جبل الدحي, romanized: Jebel ed-Dahi) is a hill in northern Israel on the northeast side of the Jezreel Valley. The highest peak reaches an altitude of 515 metres (1,690 ft), while the bottom of the Jezreel Valley is situated at an ...
The Battle of Mount Tabor is described in the Book of Judges chapters 4 and 5 as taking place during the time of the Judges between the forces of King Jabin of Canaan who ruled from Hazor, and the Israelite army led by Barak and Deborah. It supposedly happened 160 years after Joshua's death.
The battle took place at Mount Tabor in Lower Galilee, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of the Sea of Galilee, sometime between 1150 and 1075 BCE, during the time of the Judges of the Hebrew Bible. [1] [2]
The Church of the Transfiguration (Hebrew: כנסיית ההשתנות) is a Franciscan church located on Mount Tabor in Israel. It is traditionally believed to be the site where the Transfiguration of Jesus took place, an event in the Gospels in which Jesus is transfigured upon an unnamed mountain and speaks with Moses and Elijah .
Mount Tabor is traditionally identified as the Mount of Transfiguration. None of the accounts identify the "high mountain" of the scene by name. Since the 3rd century, some Christians have identified Mount Tabor as the site of the transfiguration, including Origen. See [38] citing Origen's reference to Ps 89:12. Tabor has long been a place of ...
A view of the Sea of Galilee from the top of Mount Arbel Tabgha pool Capernaum Mount Tabor. The trail was founded in 2007 by two hiking enthusiasts: Maoz Inon, a Jewish Israeli entrepreneur who has established hostels and guesthouses in Israel, [3] and David Landis, a Christian American hiking specialist. [4]