Bible Names

Tadmor: meaning of the name

Tadmor means “the palm-tree; bitterness.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Tadmor in Hebrew and Greek

תַּדְמֹר H8412

Tadmôr (tad-more') — Tadmor, a place near Palestine

or תַּמֹּר; (1 Kings 9:18), apparently from H8558 (תָּמָר); palm-city;

Places named Tadmor

Tadmor in Scripture

“Tadmor” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Kings 9:18

    And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

  • 2 Chronicles 8:4

    And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.