Real Love Tabitha, also called Dorcas was a disciple of Jesus. Her name means gazelle. This gazelle-like woman did good works, charitable deeds, and she was a seamstress. She was surrounded and loved by a slew of friends. In the book of Acts chapter 9, verse 37 she died. Greater Love Dorcas’s friends washed her body for burial. Two of them ran for Peter who was in a neighboring town. They heard he and other disciples had performed miracles. The towns were 22.9 km or 14 miles