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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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 ( Genesis
38:6 ). After her husband's
death, she was married to Onan,
his brother (Genesis
38:8), 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
( Genesis
38:12 - 30
).
(3) A daughter of David ( 2
Samuel 13:1 - 32
; 1
Chronicles 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
Samuel 14:27 ).
Hitchcock's Dictionary of
Bible Names
palm; palm-tree
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(palm tree)
(1) The wife successively of
the two sons of Judah, Er and
Onan. ( Genesis
38:8 - 30
) (B.C. about 1718.) Her importance
in the sacred narrative depends
on the great anxiety to keep
up the lineage of Judah. It
seemed as if the family were
on the point of extinction.
Er and Onan had successively
perished suddenly. Judahs wife,
Bathshuah, died; and there only
remained a child, Shelah, whom
Judah was unwilling to trust
to the dangerous union as it
appeared, with Tamar, lest he
should meet with the same fate
as his brothers. Accordingly
she resorted to the desperate
expedient of entrapping the
father himself into the union
which he feared for his son.
The fruits of this intercourse
were twins, Pharez and Zarah,
and through Pharez the sacred
line was continued.
(2) Daughter of David and Maachah
the Geshurite princess, and
thus sister of Absalom. ( 2
Samuel 13:1 - 32
; 1
Chronicles 3:9 ) (B.C. 1033.)
She and her brother were alike
remarkable for their extraordinary
beauty. This fatal beauty inspired
a frantic passion in her half-brother
Amnon, the oldest son of David
by Ahinoam. In her touching
remonstrance two points are
remarkable: first, the expression
of the infamy of such a crime
"in Israel" implying the loftier
standard of morals that prevailed,
as compared with other countries
at that time; and second, the
belief that even this standard
might be overborne lawfully
by royal authority --"Speak
to the king, for he will not
withhold me from thee." The
intense hatred of Amnon succeeding
to his brutal passion, and the
indignation of Tamar at his
barbarous insult, even surpassing
her indignation at his shameful
outrage, are pathetically and
graphically told.
(3) Daughter of Absalom, ( 2
Samuel 14:7 ) became, by
her marriage with Uriah of Gibeah,
the mother of Maachah, the future
queen of Judah or wife of Abijah.
( 1
Kings 15:2 ) (B.C. 1023.)
(4) A spot on the southeastern
frontier of Judah, named in
( Ezekiel
47:19 ; 48:28
) only, evidently called from
a palm tree. If not Hazazon-tamar,
the old name of Engedi, it may
he a place called Thamar in
the Onamasticon [HAZAZON-TAMAR],
a days journey south of Hebron.
International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia
ta'-mar (tamar, "palm"; Codex
Vaticanus Themar; Codex Alexandrinus
Thamar (so Codex Vaticanus in
Genesis)):
(1) The wife of Er, the oldest
son of Judah (Genesis
38:6). Upon her husband's
death under the displeasure
of Yahweh, his brother Onan
ought to have performed the
husband's part, but he evaded
his duty in this respect, and
likewise perished. Shelah, the
next brother, was promised to
her, but not given. This led
Tamar to the extraordinary course
narrated in Genesis
38:13, on which see JUDAH.
By her father-in-law she became
the mother of Perez and Zerah
(the King James Version "Pharez
and Zarah"). Judah, who at first
condemned her to be burned (Genesis
38:24), was compelled to
vindicate her (Genesis
38:25 , 26).
Through Perez she became an
ancestress of Jesus (Thamar,
Matthew
1:3).
(2) A daughter of David and
sister of Absalom (2
Samuel 13:1). Her beauty
inflamed her half-brother Amnon
with passion, and by stratagem
he forcibly violated her. This
brought upon Amnon the terrible
revenge of Absalom.
See ABSALOM;
AMNON.
(3) A daughter of Absalom (2
Samuel 14:27).
See MAACAH.
James Orr
(tamar, "palm tree"; Thaiman):
(4) This name occurs in Ezekiel's
ideal delimitation of the territory
to be occupied by Israel (Ezekiel
47:19 ; 48:28).
The Dead Sea is the eastern
border; and the southern boundary
runs from Tamar as far as the
waters of Meriboth-kadesh to
the Brook of Egypt and the Great
Sea. The place therefore lay
somewhere to the Southwest of
the Dead Sea. "Hazazon-tamar
(the same is En-gedi)" (2
Chronicles 20:2) is of course
out of the question, being much
too far to the North. Eusebius
(in Onomasticon) mentions Asasonthamar,
with which Thamara was identified.
This place was a village with
fortress and Roman garrison,
a day's journey from Mampsis
on the way from Hebron to Elath.
It is the Thamaro mentioned
by Ptolemy (v.16, 8), as a military
station on the road from Hebron
to Petra. It is named also in
the Peutinger Tables. Neither
Mampsis nor Thamaro has been
identified.
(5) Among the towns "built"
or fortified by Solomon, named
in 1
Kings 9:18, is Tamar (the
Revised Version (British and
American) following Kethibh),
or Tadmor (the King James Version
following Qere; compare 2
Chronicles 8:4). Gezer,
Beth-horon and Baalath, named
along with it, are all in Southern
Palestine, while Tamar is described
as in the wilderness in the
land, pointing to the Negeb
or to the Wilderness of Judah.
It was probably intended to
protect the road for trade from
Ezion-geber to Jerusalem. We
may with some confidence identify
it with (4) above. It is interesting
to note that the Chronicler
(2
Chronicles 8:4) takes it
out of connection with the other
cities (2
Chronicles 8:5), and brings
its building into relation with
Solomon's conquest of Hamath-zobah.
Clearly in his mind it denoted
the great and beautiful city
of Palmyra, which has so long
been known as "Tadmor in the
Wilderness."
W. Ewing
RELATED:
David,
Absalom
Copyright
Information: "Easton's
Bible Dictionary", Matthew
George Easton M.A., D.D., 1897;
"Hitchcock's Dictionary
of Bible Names", Roswell
D. Hitchcock, 1869; "International
Standard Bible Encyclopedia",
Orr, James, M.A., D.D., 1915;
and "Smith's Bible Dictionary",
Smith, William, Dr., 1901. are
public domain and may be freely
used and distributed. |
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