Tamar: Palm.1. A place mentioned by Ezekiel
(Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28) on the
southeastern border of Palestine. Some suppose this was "Tadmor"
(q.v.).
2. The daughter-in-law of Judah, to whose eldest son, Er, she was
married
(Genesis 38:6) After her husband's death, she was married to
Onan, his brother
(Genesis 38:8) and on his death, Judah promised to
her that his third son, Shelah, would become her husband. This
promise was not fulfilled, and hence Tamar's revenge and Judah's
great guilt
(Genesis 38:12-30)
3. A daughter of David
(2 Samuel 13:1-32; 1 Chronicles 3:9) whom Amnon shamefully
outraged and afterwards "hated exceedingly," thereby
illustrating the law of human nature noticed even by the
heathen, "Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris",
i.e., "It is the property of human nature to hate one whom you
have injured."
4. A daughter of Absalom
(2 Samuel 14:27)
