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).

"Heb. `eshel (Gen. 21:33; 1 Sam. 22:6; 31:13, in the R.V.; but in" "A.V., "grove," "tree"); Arab. asal. Seven species of this tree" "are found in Palestine. It is a "very graceful tree, with long" feathery branches and tufts closely clad with the minutest of "leaves, and surmounted in spring with spikes of beautiful pink" "blosoms, which seem to envelop the whole tree in one gauzy sheet" "of colour" (Tristram's Nat. Hist.)."

Definition of Tamar:
"palm; palm-tree"