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Tamar (4)

  1. TAMAR, a City of Judea, mentioned in Ezekiel, as one of the Southern Limits of Ezek. xlvii. 19. xlvithis ii. 28.Country: It must be about the Southern Point of the Dead-Sea. Eusebius says, that Eufeb. in Thamara.Thamara is one Day’s Journey from Malis, or Malasha, going towards Elia or Jerusalem. He adds, that the Romans kept a Garison there. Ptolemy, and the Tables of Peutinger, set down also Thamar or Thamara in Judea.

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