A small drum. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe
A percussion instrument of Spain and France It is a shallow drum slung over one shoulder and played with one had The player may simultaneously play a fife
A small drum. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the players other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe
a height (1 ) Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain, 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee It is about 1,843 feet high The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly extensive and grand This is alluded to in Ps 89: 12; Jer 46: 18 It was here that Barak encamped before the battle with Sisera (q v ) Judg 4: 6-14 There is an old tradition, which, however, is unfounded, that it was the scene of the transfiguration of our Lord (See HERMON ) "The prominence and isolation of Tabor, standing, as it does, on the border-land between the northern and southern tribes, between the mountains and the central plain, made it a place of note in all ages, and evidently led the psalmist to associate it with Hermon, the one emblematic of the south, the other of the north " There are some who still hold that this was the scene of the transfiguration (q v )