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HebrewH8559Proper Noun (Feminine)

תָּמָר

ta.mar

23Occurrences
H8559Strong's #
Proper Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Tamar, the name of three women and a place

the same as H8558 (תָּמָר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; married to Judah (H3063) and Er (H6147); mother of: Perez (H6557) and Zerah (H2226I) Also named: Thamar (*Θάμαρ *"Tamar" G2283) § Tamar = "palm-tree" 1) widow of Er, the son of Judah; fiancee of Shelah, another son of Judah; wife of Judah and mother of Pharez and ) daughter of David by Maacah, sister of Absalom, and rape victim of Amnon her half brother, another son of ) daughter of Absalom 4) a place on the southern border of Gad

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

N:N-F-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

תָּמָר appears 23 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Samuel
13
Genesis
4
Ezk
3
1 Chronicles
2
Ruth
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:4BSB

Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

2 Samuel 13:4BSB

so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?”Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

2 Samuel 13:8BSB

So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.

2 Samuel 13:22BSB

And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for disgracing his sister Tamar.

Ezk 47:19BSB

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