STRONGS NUMBER H2872


Word Summary
tabbur: highest part, center
Original Word: טַבּוּר
Transliteration: tabbur
Phonetic Spelling: (tab-boor')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: highest part, center
Meaning: accumulated, a summit
Strong's Concordance
middle, midst

From an unused root meaning to pile up; properly, accumulated; i.e. (by implication) a summit -- middle, midst.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2872. tabbur

טַבּוּרnoun [masculine] highest part, centre (according to ᵑ9 ᵐ5navel, so Late Hebrew id., and טִיבּוּר‎, Aramaic טִיבּוּרְיָא טִיבּוּרָא,‎) — הארץ טַבּוּר מֵעִם יֹרְדִים עָם הִנֵּהJudges 9:37 behold people descending from the highest part of the land; הארץ עַלטַֿבּוּר ישְׁבֵיEzekiel 38:12 those dwelling upon the navel of the earth, i.e. upon the mountainous country of Israel, central and prominent in the earth.