Tabrets
Tabrets as instruments of praise and worship are not new - they are mentioned several times in the Old Testament. The word tabret appears nine times in the Bible. From the root word tabor, a tabret is a small tabor and refers to a small frame on which material is stretched for embroidery. The word tabor also describes a small frame drum with one head.
Today, we use embroidery hoops. The hoops are covered with fabric, then have metallic or ribbon streamers added, and are finished with various trims. Tabrets have a symbolic cloth insert within the hoop itself, which often represents an attribute of God or a special word given by the Holy Spirit. They can be quite beautiful, and are wonderful to use. The following scriptures show the relationship of tabrets and praise.
Genesis 31:27 "Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me: and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?"
1 Samuel 10:5 "After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:"
1 Samuel 18:6 "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music."
Job 17:6 "He hath made me also a byword of the people: and aforetime I was as a tabret."
Isaiah 5:12 "And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands."
Isaiah 24:8 "The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth."
Isaiah 30:32 "And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it."
Jeremiah 31:4 "Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry."
Ezekiel 28:13 "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the saphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day thou was created."
It is interesting that Jeremiah 31:4 uses the word adorned. Adorned means "beautified, decorated, embellished, to add attractiveness by adornments". As mentioned earlier, these are adornments for the Bride to use.
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