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; a timbrel
  • noun obsolete A person who plays the tabor.

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Examples

  • "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.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • (Heb. topheth) "tabret" should be, as in the Revised Version,

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • Job 21: 12; Ps. 68: 25); also "tabret" (Gen. 31: 27; Isa.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • 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

  • 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.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • 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?

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • 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

  • 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?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • 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.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

    Job 17. 1999

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