Tamar

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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).
     

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

  Tamar, palm; palm-tree