תָּמָר
tâmâr · taw-mawr'
a palm tree
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to be erect;
a palm tree
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: palm (tree).
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the mark, the covenant sign › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest
The mark, the covenant sign of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תָּמָר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
8 occurrences · 8 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of palm trees4 · 33%
- palm trees2 · 17%
- of palm1 · 8%
- and palm1 · 8%
- like the palm tree1 · 8%
- to a palm tree1 · 8%
- to the palm tree1 · 8%
- tree, the palm tree1 · 8%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.