Tamar (given name)
Tamar(Hebrew:תָּמָר) is afemalegiven name ofHebreworigin, meaning "date"(the fruit),"date palm"or just"palm tree".In theBible,Tamar refers to two women: one is the daughter-in-law ofJudah,Tamar,and the other is the daughter ofKing Davidand full sister ofAbsalom,Tamar.The latter was raped by her half-brotherAmnon,leading Absalom to eventually kill him. Absalom named his daughter Tamar, described as a woman of great beauty.[1]For a period, Tamar held the top spot for girls' names in Israel, and dropped to second in 2022.[2][3]
Tamar was also among the Biblical names used byPuritansin theAmerican Colonial Erain the 17th and 18th centuries. Puritan families sometimes used names of Biblical characters seen as sinful as a reminder of man's fallen state.[4]
People with the given name Tamar
[edit]- Tamar (Genesis),daughter-in-law ofJudahin the Bible
- Tamar (daughter of David),daughter of King David and full sister of his sonAbsalomin the Bible
- Tamar, daughter of David's sonAbsalom
- Tamar of Georgia(1160–1213), Georgian queen
- Tamar of Imereti (died 1455),Georgian queen consort of theKingdom of Georgia
- Tamar of Imereti (died 1556),Georgian queen consort of theKingdom of Kartli
- Tamar of Kartli(1696–1746), Georgian queen
- Tamar of Mukhrani(died 1683), Georgian princess
- Támar(born 1980), American singer
- Tamar Abakelia(1905–1953), Georgian artist
- Tamar Ariav(born 1949), Israeli professor of education and President ofBeit Berl College
- Tamar Amilakhori(fl. 17th-century), Safavid concubine of Georgian origin
- Tamar Beruchashvili(born 1961), Georgian politician
- Tamar Braxton(born 1977), American singer
- Tamar Eilam,Israeli-American computer scientist
- Tamar Garb(born 1957), British art historian
- Tamar Gendler(born 1965), American philosopher
- Tamar Gozansky(born 1940), Israeli politician
- Tamar Halperin(born 1976), Israeli musician
- Tamar Hermann(born 1957), Israeli political scientist
- Tamar Jacoby(born 1954), American writer
- Tamar Kaprelian(born 1986), American singer
- Tamar Katz(born 1988), Israeli figure skater
- Tamar Sanikidze(born 1978), Georgian politician
- Tamar Simon Hoffs(born 1934), American film director
- Tamar Slay(born 1980), American basketball player
- Tamar Tatuashvili(born 1991), Georgian football player
- Tamar Tavadze(1898–1975), Georgian artist
- Tamar Tumanyan(1907–1989), Soviet Armenian architect
- Tamar Zandberg(born 1976), Israeli politician
Fictional characters
[edit]- Hilary Tamar, fictional character in the novels ofSarah Caudwell
- Tamar Cauldwell, the central character in the epic poemTamarby Robinson Jeffers
- Tamar Kir-Bataar, acharacter from the Grishaverse book seriesbyLeigh Bardugo.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Hanks, Patrick (2006).A dictionary of first names.Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-861060-1.
- ^Zaltzman, Lior (19 September 2023)."The 20 Most Popular Jewish Baby Names in Israel".Kveller.Retrieved29 April2024.
- ^Toi Staff (6 October 2016)."Israel's top baby names are Muhammad, Tamar".The Times of Israel.
- ^Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley,Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature
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