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Thamar

Thamar {tham'-ar}
Greek: noun feminine

Possible Definitions:
1) Tamar meaning "palm tree" was the wife of the two sons of Judah, Er and Onan. Gen 38:6-30. (About B.C. 1718) Her importance in the sacred scriptures depends on the great anxiety to keep up the lineage of Judah. It seems as if the family were on the point of extinction. Er and Onan had successively perished suddenly. Judah's wife Bathshuah, died; and there only remaining child, Shelah, whom Judah was unwilling to trust to the dangerous union, as it appeared with Tamar, lest he should meet with the same fate as his brothers. Accordingly she resorted to the desperate expedient of entrapping the father himself into the union which he feared for his son. The fruits of this intercourse were the twins, Pharez and Zarah, and through Pharez the sacred line was continued.

Thamar {tham'-ar}

Greek: noun feminine

of Hebrew origin [8559];

Translated as:

Thamar (1 time)

Strong's Number 2283

TDNT - omitted,311