James Strong, Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible… (1890)
“ Tabor, a mountain in Palestine, also a city adjacent: Tabor.8397 תֶּ֫בֶל (teh'-bel) : apparently from בָּלַל; mixture, i.e. unnatural bestiality: confusion.8398 תֵּבֵל (tay-bale') : from יָבַל; the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited) ; by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a partic. land, as Babylonia, Palestine: habitable part, world. ”
