Mount Tabor, sometimes spelled Mount Thabor (Hebrew: הר תבור, romanized: Har Tavor; Arabic: جبل طابور), is a large hill of biblical significance in Lower Galilee, northern Israel, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 18 kilometres (11 miles) west of the Sea of Galilee.

2023年9月21日 · Mount Tabor is a dome-shaped mountain in the Jezreel Valley situated 6 miles east of Nazareth and 11 miles southwest of the Sea of Galilee. Rising less than 2,000 feet above sea level, Mount Tabor appears loftier than it actually is in the otherwise flat Jezreel Valley.

Mount Tabor, historic elevation of northern Israel, in Lower Galilee near the edge of the Plain of Esdraelon (ʿEmeq Yizreʿel). Though comparatively low (1,929 feet [588 metres]), it dominates the level landscape around it, leading to the biblical expression “like Tabor among the mountains”

2024年12月6日 · Mount Tabor is a site of profound historical and religious importance. Rising majestically in the Lower Galilee region of Israel, it has been a focal point for spiritual narratives spanning millennia. Its significance traverses through Judaic traditions and Christian theology, marking it as an enduring symbol of faith and divine encounters.

Mount Tabor, rising dome-like from the Plain of Jezreel, is the mountain where Christian tradition places the Transfiguration of Jesus. Scholars disagree on whether Mount Tabor was the scene of that event (described in Matthew 17:1-9; Mark 9: 2-8 and Luke 9:28-36).

2024年3月3日 · Mount Tabor is a distinctive cone-shaped mountain rising 575 meters (1,886 feet) above sea level in the Jezreel Valley of northern Israel. It is situated near the ancient trade routes that connected the coastal plains with the inland regions of Galilee and Samaria.

2021年3月9日 · Today, the church complex on the summit, built upon the foundations of an earlier Byzantine church, is the mountain's major tourist attraction. For non-religious travelers, though, the summit is worth a visit for the views alone, which sweep across the Jezreel Plain below.

Mt. Tabor sits at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 11 miles (18 km) west of the Sea of Galilee. Its elevation at the summit is 1,886 feet (575 m) high. It is used in Scripture as a symbol of majesty.

Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee region of Northern Israel rises with its distinctive shape from the flat and fertile Jezreel Valley. Mount Tabor is important as a Biblical site from both the Old and New Testaments, and today, as a place of leisure, with awesome hiking trails and as one of the most important paragliding locations in Israel.

The Abbey of Mount Tabor was a Benedictine monastery on the shrine of Christ's Transfiguration on Mount Tabor in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Christian tradition has identified Mount Tabor in Galilee as the site of the miraculous Transfiguration of Jesus.