Tamar

American  

[tey-mer, tah-] / ˈteɪ mər, ˈtɑ- /

noun

1. the daughter of David and half-sister of Absalom. 2 Samuel 13.

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Etymology

Origin of Tamar

From Hebrew Tāmār “palm tree, date palm”

Example Sentences

Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm, whose Temple Beth Jacob congregation has collected food and money for families, demanded the prosecution of those responsible for shooting Alex Pretti and Good.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Northwestern economists, Tamar den Besten and Diego Känzig, looked at data from 1840 to 2024 and found that tariff increases were usually followed by slightly higher inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Carleigh Bodrug’s “Scrappy Cooking” and Tamar Adler’s “The Everlasting Meal Cookbook” are brilliant companions for this mindset, offering clever, unexpected ways to elevate what might otherwise be scraps.

From Salon

"What we see in this study is the beginning of the story, before opioids became a major issue, and it shows rises in deaths of despair were already beginning to happen when the opioid crisis hit," said Tamar Oostrom, co-author of the study and an assistant professor of economics at The Ohio State University.

From Science Daily

The startup, founded in 2021 by former Israeli Defence Forces military intelligence officers Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan, raised funding at a $6 billion valuation in June.

From The Wall Street Journal