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tā´bẽr (תּפף, tāphaph, “to strike a timbrel†(()): The word is used only once in the King James Version, namely, in the exceedingly graphic account of the capture of Nineveh given in . The queen (perhaps the city personified) is dishonored and led into ignominious captivity, followed by a mourning retinue of “maids of honor†who taber upon, that is, beat violently, their breasts. Such drumming on the breasts was a gesture indicative of great grief ().