Tamar

Tamar appears twice in Scripture as a place name. First in 1 Kings 9:18 as one of Solomon's building projects in the southeastern wilderness: "And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land" — though the Masoretic reading is "Tamar," with "Tadmor" as the parallel reading found in 2 Chronicles 8:4 and the Targums. Second in Ezekiel 47:19 and 48:28 as a boundary marker on the southern frontier of the visionary restored land: "And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea." The site is generally identified with En-Tamar (modern Ein Hazeva) south of the Dead Sea, an oasis fortress controlling the southern desert trade routes.