Person · one of several with this name
Tamar
Also called Thamar
Mentioned in 7 verses across 4 books, first in Ruth 4:12. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).
In the Bible
All 1 verse in Ruth, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Ruth
- Ruth 4:12
And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
Events
Events the dataset lists Tamar as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. 1721 BCBirth of Perez
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
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).