Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8558
תָּמָר
tamartaw-mawr'
palm
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tâmâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8558is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8558
a palm tree
The King James renders it: palm (tree).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tamar is rendered "palm". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Two of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:27Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
Exodus 15:27תְּמָרִ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in Song of Solomon.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- palm trees4
- like the palm tree1
- on palm tree1
- palm tree1
- to a palm tree1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תָּמִיד | tamid | continually | Uses104 |
| תָּמִים | tamim | unblemished | Uses91 |
| תָּמַם | tamam | to finish | Uses63 |
| תָּמַךְ | tamak | to grasp | Uses21 |
| תָּמַהּ | tamahh | to astounded | Uses9 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְתָמָ֔ר1
- כַּתָּמָ֣ר1
- לְתָמָ֔ר1
- תָּמָ֣ר1
- תְמָרִ֔ים1
- תְּמָרִ֑ים1
- תְּמָרִ֔ים1
- תְּמָרִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural4HNcmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Exodus
one use
Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
- תְּמָרִ֑יםtemarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: palm trees
Leviticus
one use
On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
- תְּמָרִ֔יםtemarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: palm trees
Numbers
one use
They set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
- תְּמָרִ֖יםtemarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: palm trees
Nehemiah
one use
So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
- תְמָרִ֔יםtemarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: palm trees
Psalms
one use
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- כַּתָּמָ֣רkatamarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the palm tree
Song of Solomon
two uses
Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
- לְתָמָ֔רletamarpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to a palm tree
I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
- בְתָמָ֔רvetamarpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: on palm tree
Joel
one use
The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
- תָּמָ֣רtamarnoun · masculine singulartagged: palm tree
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.