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# תָּמָר

Biblical Hebrew

**Tamar** — used 2 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

Tamar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5de_5b8_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּמָר²: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5de_5b8_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. f. daughter-in-law of Judah Gn 38:6, 11(×2), 13, 24; 1 Ch 2:4; Ru 4:12. daughter of David, sister of Absalom 2 S 13:1, 2 + 11 times 13, 2 Ch 3:9. daughter of Absalom 2 S 14:27. loc. Ez 47:19; 48:28; 1 K 9:18 Kt (\> Qr תַּדְמֹר q.v.), so read also ‖ 2 Ch 8:4 (for MT תַּדְמֹר); site not certain, cf. BuhlG. 184.—בַּעַל תָּמָר v. בַּעַל (s. p. 346).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Tamar (1); be\] from Tamar (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 48:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.48.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.48.28/#tree)

וְעַל֙ גְּב֣וּל גָּ֔ד אֶל־פְּאַ֖ת נֶ֣גֶב תֵּימָ֑נָה וְהָיָ֨ה גְב֜וּל מִתָּמָ֗ר מֵ֚י מְרִיבַ֣ת קָדֵ֔שׁ נַחֲלָ֖ה עַל־הַיָּ֥ם הַגָּדֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* and at the.border of.Gad to \[the\].side of.\[the\].south southward and it.will.be \[the\].border from Tamar the.waters of.Meribath Kadesh \[the\].wadi on the sea (the) great

*JPS 1917:* And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the Brook, unto the Great Sea.

[Ezekiel 47:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.19/#tree)

וּפְאַת֙ נֶ֣גֶב תֵּימָ֔נָה מִתָּמָ֗ר עַד־מֵי֙ מְרִיב֣וֹת קָדֵ֔שׁ נַחֲלָ֖ה אֶל־הַיָּ֣ם הַגָּד֑וֹל וְאֵ֥ת פְּאַת־תֵּימָ֖נָה נֶֽגְבָּה׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] side of.\[the\].south southward \[will be\].from.Tamar to the.waters of.Meribath Kadesh \[the\].wadi to the sea (the) great and (et) \[the\].side southward of southward

*JPS 1917:* And the south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, to the Brook, unto the Great Sea. This is the south side southward.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5de_5b8_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5de_5b8_5e8/): 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).