daughter in law of Judah Gen 38:6-30.
Tamar (Heb. Tâmâr, “date palm”; Gr. Thamár). 1. Daughter-in-law of Judah. After becoming a widower she became the mother of 2 of the children of Judah: Perez and Zara, and for that very reason the ancestor of 2 tribal families of Judah (Gen 38: 6-30; Rth 4:12; 1Ch 2: 4 ; Matt 1:3). 2. Beautiful daughter of David who was raped by her half brother Amnon. Absalom, brother of Tamar’s father and mother, took revenge for this crime by killing Amnon (2Sa 13:1-32; 1Ch 3:9). 3. Daughter of Absalom, who probably gave her this name in memory of her sister (2Sa 14:27). 4. Place called Tadmor in the RVR and Tamar in the DHH. It was located in the desert and Solomon fortified it (1Ki 9:18, BJ); possibly it is the same place mentioned under Tamar 5. The RVR calls it Tadmor in harmony with the spelling that the Jewish Masoretes attributed to it. 5. A place near the southeastern border of Palestine (Eze 47:19; 48:28), in the vicinity of the southern end of the Dead Sea, which has not been identified as yet.
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
Hebrew, palm tree. Name of woman and city. 1. Daughter-in-law of Judah, wife of Er, who died, and of Onan by levirate.
Since he did not take her as his wife, pretending to be a harlot, he slept with his father-in-law Judah, from whom he conceived and had the twins Peres and Seraj, Gn 38, 27-30. T. she is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus, Rt, 4, 12; 18, 22; 1 Chr 2, 4; Mt 1, 3. 2. she Daughter of David and Maaka, and sister of Absalom. Amnon, her half-brother, fell in love with her and raped her, for which her brother Absalom hated him and killed him in revenge, 2 S 13. 3. Daughter of Absalom, 2 S 14, 27. 4. City of the desert, al east of the territory of the tribe of Judah, 1 Kings 9, 18; Ezek 47, 18-19; 48, 28. It is probably the same city with the name of Jasesón Tamar, in the territory of the Amorites, Gn 14, 7.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
(Heb., tamar, palm tree).
1. Wife of Er, after Onan by levirate; later mother (by her father-in-law Judah) of twins, Perez and Zerah (Genesis 38:
Rth 4:12; 1Ch 2:4; Matt 1:3).
2. Daughter of David and sister of Absalom, who was raped by her half brother Amnon (2Sa 13:1-33).
3. The daughter of Absalom (2Sa 14:27).
4. A place in the extreme southeast of the future Promised Land (Eze 47:18-19; Eze 48:28).
5. City in Syria, more commonly known as Tadmor, later Palmyra. See TADMOR.
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
(date palm). Name of people and place of the OT.
1. Daughter-in-law of Judah. He had married †¢Er and was widowed. Following the levirate custom he married Onan, who also died. Judah promised that he would give T. as his husband his other son † ¢ Shelah, but he did not keep his promise for fear that he would die like the other two. T. disguised herself as a harlot and deceived Judah, with whom she became pregnant. When Judá found out about her, he wanted to punish her, but T. sent her the proof that he was her father, for which she said: “She is more just than I…. And he never knew her again †. Ella tamar gave birth to twins †¢Paresh and †¢Zara (Gen 38:6-26). Among the descendants of Perez are David and the Lord Jesus.
. David’s daughter. Sister of †¢Absalom. “Amnon son of David fell in love with her, and following the advice of his cousin Jonadab, who was “a very cunning man,” pretended to be sick and asked David to allow T. to come and serve him in her illness. While T. was attending him, he raped her, but then he hated her with “great abhorrence” and threw her out on the street. Absalom kept quiet about this offense for a while, but when an opportune day came he killed Amnon † œbecause he had forced T. his sister † (2Sa 13: 1-32).
. Daughter of †¢Absalom. She † œwas a woman of beautiful countenance † (2Sa 14:27). Some think that †¢Rehoboam’s wife, called †¢Maacah in 1Ki 15:2, is the same T.
. †¢Hazezon-tamar.
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
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see, TADMOR
vet, = “palm”. (a) Wife of Er, son of Judah. During her widowhood, and by her union with her father-in-law, she became the mother of Perez and Zarah, sons of Judah (Gen. 38:6-30). She was the ancestor of several clans (Num. 26:20, 21), and she is in the genealogical line of King David and the Lord Jesus (Rt. 4:12, 18-22; Mt. 1: 3; cf. Luke 3:33). (b) Sister of Absalom and half-sister of Amnon, who abused her (2 Sam. 13; 1 Chron. 3:9). (c) Daughter of Absalom; she gave him the name of his sister (2 Sam. 14:27). (d) A place at the eastern end of the southern border of Palestine, in the prophetic division of Ez. 47:19; 48:28. Tamar is thus south of the Dead Sea. It was one of the cities built by Solomon (1 Kings 9:18). In previous versions of Reina-Valera it had been erroneously rendered by Tadmor, which has been corrected in the 1977 Revision (see TADMOR). She can possibly be identified with the town of Thamara, which had a Roman garrison, and which is on the road from Hebron to Elat.
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Daughter-in-law of Judah, who, being a widow of Er, was given in marriage to Onan, without having children by him due to the bad disposition of her new husband (Gen. 38), which caused the death of Onam. Given her abandonment by her father-in-law, Tamar set a trap for Judah, which left her pregnant with two sons (Gen 38) who were later born healthy. One of them would thus enter the genealogy of the Messiah by being the son of Judah, although he was so involuntarily.
Pedro Chico González, Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy, Editorial Bruño, Lima, Peru 2006
Source: Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy
(-> genealogies). There are two important women named Tamar in the Bible. (1) Wife of Er, eldest son of Judah (Gen 38:6-27). The Bible says that her husband was bad and that he died without leaving any children. Well, according to the levirate law* (cf. Dt 25:5-10), Tamar had the right that Onan, her brother-in-law, would take her as his wife and beget through her a son who would be heir to his brother. (from Tamar’s first husband). Father Judah himself demanded this. “But Onan, knowing that the son that was born would not be his, but not his sister’s, every time he was united with Tamar, his brother’s wife, he poured on the ground so as not to give offspring to his brother’s brother. the. But what she did was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, who also took his life” (Gn 38,4-9). Onanism and, in general, masturbation are named after him. But Onan’s “sin” has nothing to do with the way he performs sex or spills the semen, but with the fact that he does not want to give offspring to his brother. The rest of the story is set in this context. Tamar has the right that Judah, father of her two dead husbands, grant her as a husband Sela, the third of her sons. But Judah is afraid of losing his third son as well and sends Tamar to his father’s house. She, on the other hand, is determined to look for descendants for Er, her first husband, and she manages to do so by posing as a prostitute, with whom Judah himself sleeps, returning from the harvest. She becomes pregnant and, when the signs of her pregnancy are noticed, Judah, her father-in-law, sentences her to death for adultery (because she is still bound by law to the third of her children). But she discovers what has happened (who is the father of her son) and Judah has to recognize that he has acted with justice, “which is more just than I, because I did not give my son Sela” (Gn 38,26 ). The story ends with the birth of Farés and Zéraj, the two twin sons of Tamar and Judah (of Er), thus ratifying the value of the levirate law. This is a “Revenge of Tamar” (according to the title of Tirso de Molina’s drama). The two evangelical genealogies* (Mt 1,3; Lk 3,33) present Jesus as the son of Farés. Furthermore, Mt has introduced Tamar among the ancestors of Jesus, in such a way that his figure serves to illuminate the life and figure of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. (2) Absalom’s sister, raped by her half-brother Anion (2 Sam 13). Beautiful woman, daughter of David, protagonist of one of the most significant stories of love and revenge in the Old Testament. Absalom, another son of David and of her mother, loves her as her sister. Amón, her son also by David, but by another woman, loves her with a strong passionate love and takes advantage of the way he rapes her to abandon her later. According to the law of that time she could marry her half-sister or hers (cf. 2 Sm 13,13). But Amón ignores her, rapes her and abandons her. Absalom takes advantage of the moment and, after two years, takes revenge on his brother and kills him. Nothing else is said about Tamar, the raped one, but only that Absalom, her brother and her goel *, had a daughter who was also beautiful and who was named after her: Tamar (2 Sm 14,27) .
PIKAZA, Javier, Dictionary of the Bible. History and Word, Divine Word, Navarra 2007
Source: Dictionary of Bible History and Word
“And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, gave birth to Peres and Zera.” (I Chronicles 2:4)
Read: Genesis 38:6-30; I Chronicles 2:4. Tamar means “slender” and is the name used in Scripture for the palm tree. Tamar’s configuration can be inferred from this: tall and slim. But it is even more important that as her mother-in-law, the daughter of Shua, she was a Canaanite.
The fact that she was a Canaanite exposes a bold characteristic in Jacob’s family. Although we do not know exactly, it is likely that the other sons took wives from Padan-Aram. But of Judah, which interests us especially because he was the ancestor of the Messiah, we are expressly told that his wife was a Canaanite, and that she gave him Er, his eldest son; and Er’s wife was most likely a Canaanite as well.
All this does not mean that Tamar was wicked or idolatrous, for we know from Melchizedek’s visit to Abraham that there were some families in Canaan who revered the “Most High,” even though they did not have a complete knowledge of God. And yet it is evident from Tamar’s pathetic story that this remnant of faith had been severely warped by a faulty moral life.
Canaan had especially succumbed to the sin of adultery, which had assumed such proportions that it was even a duty in terms of religious ritual. This is made evident by the experience of Phineas and the worship of Baal-peor. And we know from other incidents that Ashtaroth’s service was one of extreme depravity. When man separates himself from God, he ends up falling into a regrettable degradation.
Let us briefly recall that Tamar had been the wife of Judah’s firstborn, Er, whom God took his life for his wickedness. Tamar having been left a widow, she marries her second son, Onan. But he also does evil before Jehovah, and suffers the same punishment. Judah now had to give him Sela, her third son, because she had promised him, but she did not do it and Tamar was still childless. This was a shame for her. Three consecutive times she failed in her desire to give offspring to the family of Judah.
And then comes the plan to lure Judah himself into committing adultery with her. From her sin, Pares and Zara were born. And with it her name appears in…