TAMAR
“palm”.
(a) Wife of Er, son of Judah. During her widowhood, and through her union with her father-in-law, she became the mother of Perez and Zara, sons of Judah (Gen. 38:6-30).
She was an ancestor of several clans (Num. 26:20, 21), and is in the genealogical line of King David and the Lord Jesus (Rt. 4:12, 18-22; Mt. 1: 3; cf. Lk. . 3:33).
(b) Sister of Absalom and half-sister of Amnon, who abused her (2 Sam. 13; 1 Chron. 3:9).
(c) Daughter of Absalom; she gave him the name of his sister (2 Sam. 14:27).
(d) Place at the eastern end of the southern border of Palestine, in the prophetic division of Ez. 47:19; 48:28. Tamar is thus located south of the Dead Sea.
It was one of the cities built by Solomon (1 Kings 9:18). In previous versions of the Reina-Valera it had been erroneously rendered by Tadmor, which has been corrected in the 1977 Revision (see TADMOR).
It can possibly be identified with the town of Thamara, which had had a Roman garrison, and which is located on the road from Hebron to Elat.