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TABERAH (PLACE) [Heb tab˓ērâ (תַּבְעֵרָה)]. A place on the wilderness itinerary of the Israelite, three days N of Mount Sinai (Num 10:30; 11:3; cf. Deut 9:22). The inhospitable locale led the people to complain, angering Yahweh. This leads Yahweh to send down fire to burn (b˓r) part of the camp. This action provides the Hebrew verbal root from which the name “Taberah” (“burning”) is constructed.
An itinerary of Israel’s campsites in the wilderness is included in Numbers 33, but it omits Taberah, skipping from Sinai to Kibroth Hattaavah (v 16). The latter site is mentioned in 11:34–35 as a location where Yahweh again punished his people for complaining. Since no record is made in Numbers 11 of a move from Taberah to Kibroth Hattaavah, these could be alternative names for the same location. However, Deut 9:22 seems to list them as separate sites (GTTOT, 255). Possibly one of the names designates an area and the other a specific site within the area (Wenham Numbers TOTC, 106). No compelling identification of the geographical location of Taberah has been proposed.
David W. Baker
Freedman, D. N. (1996, c1992). The Anchor Bible Dictionary (6:292). New York: Doubleday.
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Taberah — burning, a place in the wilderness of Paran, where the “fire of the Lord” consumed the murmuring Israelites (Num. 11:3; Deut. 9:22). It was also called Kibroth-hattaavah (q.v.).
Easton, M. (1996, c1897). Easton's Bible dictionary. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
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TABERAH Temporary stopping place for Israel in the wilderness of Paran, listed with Massah and Kibroth- hattaavah as places where Israel complained against the Lord. Taberah was named for the fire that God used to judge the grumbling Israelites (Nm 11:3; Dt 9:22).
Elwell, W. A., & Comfort, P. W. (2001). Tyndale Bible dictionary. Tyndale reference library (1233). Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers.
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TAB´ERAH (tabʹe-ra; “burning”). A place in the wilderness of Paran, so called from the fact that the fire of the Lord consumed the discontented of the children of Israel (Num. 11:3; Deut. 9:22).
Unger, M. F., Harrison, R. K., Vos, H. F., Barber, C. J., & Unger, M. F. (1988). The new Unger's Bible dictionary. Revision of: Unger's Bible dictionary. 3rd ed. c1966. (Rev. and updated ed.). Chicago: Moody Press.
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Taberah (Heb. taḇ˓ērâ)
A site (Heb. “burning”) along the Exodus route, in the southeastern Sinai Peninsula three days N of Mt. Sinai (Num. 11:3). Here the Lord set fire to the outer edges of the camp as punishment for the people’s complaining (Num. 11:1–3; cf. Deut. 9:22).
Pete F. Wilbanks
Freedman, D. N., Myers, A. C., & Beck, A. B. (2000). Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible (1269). Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans.
