Tadmor

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Tadmor
     palm, a city built by Solomon "in the wilderness" (2 Chr. 8:4).
     In 1 Kings 9:18, where the word occurs in the Authorized
     Version, the Hebrew text and the Revised Version read "Tamar,"
     which is properly a city on the southern border of Palestine and
     toward the wilderness (comp. Ezek. 47:19; 48:28). In 2 Chr. 8:14


     Tadmor is mentioned in connection with Hamath-zobah. It is
     called Palmyra by the Greeks and Romans. It stood in the great
     Syrian wilderness, 176 miles from Damascus and 130 from the
     Mediterranean and was the centre of a vast commercial traffic
     with Western Asia. It was also an important military station.
     (See {SOLOMON}.) "Remains of ancient temples and
     palaces, surrounded by splendid colonnades of white marble, many
     of which are yet standing, and thousands of prostrate pillars,
     scattered over a large extent of space, attest the ancient
     magnificence of this city of palms, surpassing that of the
     renowned cities of Greece and Rome."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Tadmor, the palm-tree; bitterness