Strong's #8559: Tamar (pronounced taw-mawr')

the same as 8558; Tamar, the name of three women and a place:--Tamar.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tâmâr

Tamar = "palm-tree"

1) widow of Er, the son of Judah; fiancee of Shelah, another son of Judah; wife of Judah and mother of Pharez and Zerah (noun proper feminine)

2) daughter of David by Maacah, sister of Absalom, and rape victim of Amnon her half brother, another son of David (noun proper feminine)

3) daughter of Absalom (noun proper feminine)

4) a place on the southern border of Gad (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Usage:

This word is used 24 times:

 

Genesis 38:6: "for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar."
Genesis 38:11: "Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at thy father's house,"
Genesis 38:11: "die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house."
Genesis 38:13: "And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath to shear"
Genesis 38:24: "months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and also,"
Ruth 4:12: "like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bore unto Judah, of the seed"
2 Samuel 13:1: "had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved"
2 Samuel 13:2: "that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon"
2 Samuel 13:4: "said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."
2 Samuel 13:5: "unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress"
2 Samuel 13:6: "unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple"
2 Samuel 13:7: "sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother"
2 Samuel 13:8: " So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took"
2 Samuel 13:10: "And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat"
2 Samuel 13:10: "into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes"
2 Samuel 13:19: " And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors"
2 Samuel 13:20: "regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate"
2 Samuel 13:22: "because he had forced his sister Tamar."
2 Samuel 13:32: "from the day that he forced his sister Tamar."
2 Samuel 14:27: "and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair"
1 Chronicles 2:4: " And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons"
1 Chronicles 3:9: "beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister."
Ezekiel 47:19: "And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife"
Ezekiel 48:28: "southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh,"