Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small tabor; a tambourine or timbrel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A taboret.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
tabor ; atimbrel - noun obsolete A person who plays the
tabor .
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Examples
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"prophecy" is sometimes used in Scripture (1Ch 25: 1; 1Co 11: 5). took a timbrel -- or "tabret" -- a musical instrument in the form of a hoop, edged round with rings or pieces of brass to make a jingling noise and covered over with tightened parchment like a drum.
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(Heb. topheth) "tabret" should be, as in the Revised Version,
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Job 21: 12; Ps. 68: 25); also "tabret" (Gen. 31: 27; Isa.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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In the same sense, the prophets that came down from the high place, or hill of god, with a psaltery, and a tabret, and
Leviathan 2007
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And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
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And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
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And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Job 17. 1999
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