Tamar

Palm. (1.) A place mentioned by Ezekiel (47:19; 48:28), on the southeastern border of Palestine. Some suppose this was “Tadmor” (q.v.). (2.) The daughter-in-law of Judah, to whose eldest son, Er, she was married (Gen. 38:6). After her husband’s death, she was married to Onan, his brother (8), and on his death, Judah promised to her that his third son, Shelah, would become her husband. This promise was not fulfilled, and hence Tamar’s revenge and Judah’s great guilt (38:12-30). (3.) A daughter of David (2 Sam. 13:1-32; 1 Chr. 3:9), whom Amnon shamefully outraged and afterwards “hated exceedingly,” thereby illustrating the law of human nature noticed even by the heathen, “Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris”, i.e., “It is the property of human nature to hate one whom you have injured.” (4.) A daughter of Absalom (2 Sam. 14:27).

(palm tree).

TA'MAR (palm tree). The wife of Er and Onan successively, the sons of Judah. The patriarch refused to give her his remaining son, Shelah, and therefore Tamar, in order to remove the reproach of childlessness, and likewise to be revenged on Judah, contrived to induce the latter to unintentionally commit incest. The story is told in Gen 38. The sister of Absalom, whom Amnon, by artifice, defiled. 2 Sam 13; 1 Chr 3:9. A daughter of Absalom. 2 Sam 14:27.

TA'MAR (palm tree), a place on the south-eastern frontier of Judah. Eze 47:19; Eze 48:28. According to Eusebius and Jerome, it was a day's journey south of Hebron toward Elim. Robinson identified it with the ruins of Kuruub, about a day's journey south of el-Milk (Malatha or Maladah); Wilton identifies it with Hazar-gaddah; but both these sites are as yet only conjectural. Some suppose that this, instead of Palmyra, was the "Tadmor in the wilderness" built by Solomon. See Tadmor.

palm; palm-tree

TA'MAR (palm tree), a place on the south-eastern frontier of Judah. Eze 47:19; Eze 48:28. According to Eusebius and Jerome, it was a day's journey south of Hebron toward Elim. Robinson identified it with the ruins of Kuruub, about a day's journey south of el-Milk (Malatha or Maladah); Wilton identifies it with Hazar-gaddah; but both these sites are as yet only conjectural. Some suppose that this, instead of Palmyra, was the "Tadmor in the wilderness" built by Solomon. See Tadmor.