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# תָּמָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8558

**palm-tree** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

palm-tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8558/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּמָר: n.m. palm-tree, date-palm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8558/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. palm-tree, date-palm, Phoenix dactylifera;—ת׳ Jo 1:12; in sim. of prosperity ψ 92:13, of (graceful) stature Ct 7:8, cf. (fig.) v 9; pl. תְּמָרִים in oasis Ex 15:27 (J), ‖ Nu 33:9 (P); כַּפֹּת ת׳ Lv 23:40 (H) palm-branches, cf. עֲלֵי ת׳ Ne 8:15; עִיר הַתְּמָרִים = Jericho Dt 34:3 (JE), 2 Ch 28:15 Ju 1:16; 3:13.—Vid. PostHast.DB; palm-tree M’LeanEncy. Bib. Id. TrNHB 378 ff. Theob. FischerDattelpalme, 1881.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the palm trees (4); of palm trees (2); palm tree (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 92:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.13/#tree)

צַ֭דִּיק כַּתָּמָ֣ר יִפְרָ֑ח כְּאֶ֖רֶז בַּלְּבָנ֣וֹן יִשְׂגֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].righteous like.(the) palm tree he.will.flourish like a.cedar in (the) Lebanon he.will.grow

*JPS 1917:* The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

[Song of Songs 7:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.8/#tree)

זֹ֤את קֽוֹמָתֵךְ֙ דָּֽמְתָ֣ה לְתָמָ֔ר וְשָׁדַ֖יִךְ לְאַשְׁכֹּלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* this stature your it.is.like (to).a palm.tree and breasts your (to) clusters

*JPS 1917:* This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8558.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8558/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).