Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H8559
תָּמָר
Tamartaw-mawr'
Tamar
25 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 H8559is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8559
Tamar, the name of three women and a place
The King James renders it: Tamar.
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 "Tamar". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:6Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Genesis 38:6תָּמָֽר׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's twenty-five uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Tamar18
- to Tamar3
- and Tamar2
- from Tamar2
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 |
| תָּמָר | tamar | palm | Uses8 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 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
- תָּמָ֗ר4
- תָּמָ֣ר3
- תָּמָ֥ר3
- מִתָּמָ֗ר2
- תָּמָ֑ר2
- וְתָמָר֙1
- וְתָמָ֥ר1
- לְתָמָ֨ר1
- לְתָמָ֖ר1
- תָּמֹ֑דּוּ1
- תָמָ֖ר1
- תָמָ֨ר1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)18HNpf
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Npf
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npf
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npl
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
Genesis
five uses
Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
- תָּמָֽר׃tamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
- לְתָמָ֨רletamarpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Tamar
- תָּמָ֔רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
- לְתָמָ֖רletamarpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Tamar
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
- תָּמָ֣רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
Ruth
one use
And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
- תָמָ֖רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
2 Samuel
fourteen uses
After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
- תָּמָ֑רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.
- תָּמָ֣רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
- תָּמָ֗רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
- תָמָ֨רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
- תָּמָ֣רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
- תָּמָ֖רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.
- תָּמָ֗רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
- תָּמָ֗רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
- תָּמָ֗רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying bitterly.
- תָּמָ֥רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
- תָּמָר֙tamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for disgracing his sister Tamar.
- תָּמָ֥רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
- תָּמָ֥רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
- תָּמָ֑רtamarproper noun (a name)tagged: Tamar
1 Chronicles
two uses
Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
- וְתָמָר֙vetamarconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Tamar
These were all the sons of David, besides the sons by his concubines. And Tamar was their sister.
- וְתָמָ֥רvetamarconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Tamar
Ezekiel
three uses
On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the eastern boundary.
- תָּמֹ֑דּוּtamoduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: to Tamar
On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, and along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This will be the southern boundary.
- מִתָּמָ֗רmitamarpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Tamar
The southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.
- מִתָּמָ֗רmitamarpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Tamar
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.