Tadmor

Tadmor
   Palm, a city built by Solomon "in the wilderness" (2 Chr. 8:4). In 1 Kings 9:18, where the word occurs in the Authorized Version, the Hebrew text and the Revised Version read "Tamar," which is properly a city on the southern border of Palestine and toward the wilderness (comp. Ezek. 47:19; 48:28). In 2 Chr. 8:14 Tadmor is mentioned in connection with Hamath-zobah. It is called Palmyra by the Greeks and Romans. It stood in the great Syrian wilderness, 176 miles from Damascus and 130 from the Mediterranean and was the centre of a vast commercial traffic with Western Asia. It was also an important military station. (See Solomon.) "Remains of ancient temples and palaces, surrounded by splendid colonnades of white marble, many of which are yet standing, and thousands of prostrate pillars, scattered over a large extent of space, attest the ancient magnificence of this city of palms, surpassing that of the renowned cities of Greece and Rome."

Easton's Bible Dictionary. . 1897.

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  • Tadmor — Tadmor, Stadt, s. Palmyra …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Tadmor — (Thadmor), alte Stadt, s. Palmyra …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Tadmor — Tadmor, Thadmor, s. Palmyra …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • Tadmor — DMS …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • TADMOR, HAYIM — (1923–2005), Assyriologist and historian of the Ancient Near East. Tadmor was born in Harbin, China, and arrived in Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied at the Hebrew University where he received his doctorate in 1954 for his… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Tadmor Prison — ( ar. سجن تدمر) is located in Palmyra in the deserts of eastern Syria approximately 200 kilometers northeast of Damascus ( Tadmor , or Tadmur is the Arabic name for Palmyra).The structures were originally built as military barracks by the French… …   Wikipedia

  • Tadmor — geographical name see palmyra …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Tadmor — /tad mawr, tahd /, n. Biblical name of Palmyra. * * * …   Universalium

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