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# תָּמָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8559

**Tamar** — used 22 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/1514/8559/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּמָר²: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8559/#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, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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 (19); \[was\] Tamar (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 38:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.6/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֧ח יְהוּדָ֛ה אִשָּׁ֖ה לְעֵ֣ר בְּכוֹר֑וֹ וּשְׁמָ֖הּ תָּמָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Judah a.wife for Er firstborn his and name her \[was\].Tamar

*JPS 1917:* And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.

[1 Chronicles 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.9/#tree)

כֹּ֖ל בְּנֵ֣י דָוִ֑יד מִלְּבַ֥ד בְּֽנֵי־פִֽילַגְשִׁ֖ים וְתָמָ֥ר אֲחוֹתָֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* all the.sons of.David (from) besides sons of.concubines and Tamar sister \[was\].their

*JPS 1917:* All these were the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8559.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8559/): 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).