Strong's H8559 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: תָּמָר (Tâmâr)

Pronunciation: taw-mawr'

Morphology: n-pr

Part of Speech: n pr f, n pr loc

Name Meaning: Tamar = "palm-tree"

Derivation: the same as תָּמָר (tâmâr) [H8558];

Definition: Tamar, the name of three women and a place

KJV Renderings: Tamar.

Senses

1. widow of Er, the son of Judah; fiancee of Shelah, another son of Judah; wife of Judah and mother of Pharez and Zerah
2. daughter of David by Maacah, sister of Absalom, and rape victim of Amnon her half brother, another son of David
3. daughter of Absalom
4. a place on the southern border of Gad

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.