TADMOR
palm, a city built by Solomon "in the wilderness" (2-Chr 8:4). In 1-Kings 9:18, 1-Kings 9: 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 t......