Chisloth-tabor — the meaning of the Hebrew name כִּסְלֹת תָּבֹר

כִּסְלֹת תָּבֹר

Kiçlôth Tâbôr · pronounced kis-loth' taw-bore' · Strong's H3696 · a place

Chisloth-tabor means flanks of Tabor.

Built from

כֶּסֶל keçel (feminine plural of, H3689) — properly, fatness, i.e. by implication (literally) the loin (as the seat of the leaf fat) or (generally) the viscera open in the lexicon ›

תָּבוֹר Tâbôwr (and, H8396) — broken region open in the lexicon ›

Strong's definition

from the feminine plural of H3689 and H8396; flanks of Tabor; Kisloth-Tabor, a place in Palestine.

First appearance

Josh 19:12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth–tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia, (KJV)

Every verse that names Chisloth-tabor

1 occurrence in 1 verse — Joshua

Josh 19:12

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