Daberath (dab'-e-rath) ("pasture"), a city in the territory of Issachar, near the border of Zebulun. Also called Dabareh, it likely survives as modern town of Deburich. It is important militarily, being located at the foot of Mount Tabor and guarding the entry to the Esdraelon plain. According to Josephus (ii.21.§3), a military garrison was stationed here. Issachar or Yissachar (יִשָּׂשׁכָר Reward; recompense, Standard Hebrew Yissaḫar, Tiberian Hebrew Yiśśâḵār) was the fifth son of Jacob and his first wife Leah. ... This entry incorporates text from Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation. ... Mount Tabor may refer to a number of places: Mount Tabor is a hill in the Holy Land near Nazareth. ... The Jezreel Valley (Hebrew: עמק יזרעאל; Emek Yizrael) is a large plain and inland valley in the north of Israel. ... A fanciful representation of Flavius Josephus, in an engraving in William Whistons translation of his works Josephus (years 37 – shortly after 100 AD)[1], who became known, in his capacity as a Roman citizen, as Flavius Josephus[2], was a 1st-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and...

References

• Joshua 19:12
• Joshua 21:28
• 1 Chronicles 6:58
• 1 Chronicles 6:72

External link

• Easton's Bible Dictionary Daberath

• Jewish encyclopedia entry