Tamar
    palm. (1.) A place mentioned by 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 (Gen. 38:6). After her husband's death, she was
    married to Onan, his brother (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 (38:12-30).
      (3.) A daughter of David (2 Sam. 13:1-32; 1 Chr. 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 Sam. 14:27).
 Tamar, palm; palm-tree