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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

ta-bel'-i-us (Tabellios): One of the Persian officials in Samaria who wrote a letter to Artaxerxes which caused the rebuilding of Jerusalem to be stopped for a time (1 Esdras 2:16) = "Tabeel" of Ezr 4:7.