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Baal-tamar
Lord of palm trees, a place in the tribe of Benjamin near Gibeah of Saul (Judg 20:33). It was one of the sanctuaries or groves of Baal. Probably the palm tree of Deborah (Judg 4:5) is alluded to in the name.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Judges 20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.