Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
palm
Usage: palm tree, date palm
Tamar means “palm tree” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8558 תָּמָר (tamar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tamar (taw-mawr') n-m. 1. a palm tree [from an unused root meaning to be erect] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include palm. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tamar (taw-mawr') n-m. 1. a palm tree [from an unused root meaning to be erect] KJV: palm (tree).
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palm
Usage: palm tree, date palm
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tamar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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12 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8558.
And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8558, grouped by book.
Tamar (Strong's H8558) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "palm tree". tamar (taw-mawr') n-m. 1. a palm tree [from an unused root meaning to be erect]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's H8558 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8558 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as palm. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.