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Tamar, Daughter of Absalom (תמר, tmr; “date palm”, “palm tree”). The only daughter of King David’s son, Absalom (2 Sam 14:27).
Second Samuel 14:27 states, “there were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a beautiful woman.” She may have been named after her aunt, Absalom’s sister Tamar, whose beauty was noted earlier (2 Sam 13:1). The comment on her beauty follows the narrator’s hyperbolic statement that her father Absalom was the most “handsome” man in Israel (2 Sam 14:25). The Greek Septuagint (LXX) translation expands on 2 Sam 14:27, and states that Tamar married Solomon’s son Rehoboam and bore him a son named Abia.
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