Baal-Tamar

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Judges 20:33 Judges 4:5

Holman Bible Dictionary

Judges 20:33

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

A place near Gibeah. ( Judges 20:33) It might be famous for palm-trees; for so Tamar means.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

BAAL-TAMAR . An unknown site near Bethel and Gibeah ( Judges 4:5 ).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

bā -al -tā´mar בּעל תּמר , ba‛al tāmār  ; Βαὰλ Θαμάρ , Baál Thamár , "Baal of the palm tree"): Evidently a seat of heathen worship ( Judges 20:33 ) between Bethel and Gibeah (compare Judges 20:18 , Judges 20:31 ). The place was known to Eusebius ( Onomasticon , which see), but trace of the name is now lost. Conder suggests that it may be connected with the palm tree of Deborah ( Judges 4:5 ) which was between Bethel and Ramah ( HDB , under the word).

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Ba´al-Ta´mar, a place near Gibeah, in the tribe of Benjamin, where the other tribes fought with the Benjamites ( Judges 20:33).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrews Ba'al Tamar', בִּעִל תָּמָר, place ofpalm-trees; Sept. Βάαλ Θαμάρ), a place neai Gibeah, in the tribe of Benjamin, where the other tribes fought with the Benjamites ( Judges 20:33). It was doubtless so called as being one of the sanctuaries or groves of Baal. See BAALIM. The palm-tree ( תָּמָר ) of Deborah ( Judges 4:5) was situated somewhere in the locality, and is possibly alluded to (Stanley, Palest. p. 145). Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Βααλθαμάρ, Baalthamar) call it Bethamar ( Βησθαμάρ, Bethamari), thus affording another instance of that interchange of Beth and Baal which is also exemplified in Baal-shalisha and Baal-Meon. The notices seem to correspond to the present ruined site Erhah, about three miles N.E. of Jerusalem (Van de Velde, Map), on a ravine running toward Anathoth (Robinson, Researches, 2, 315 note).