ir hattmarim (Ir-hatmarim)

Meaning

Ir-hatmarim = "the city of palmtrees"

How it's translated

the palm trees 4
city of 3
from city of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Judges 2
Deuteronomy 1
2 Chronicles 1

3 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Judges 1:16And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
Judges 3:13And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
2 Chronicles 28:15And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

Hebrew dictionary

עִיר הַתְּמָרִים ir hattmarim · Ir-hatmarim

Ir-hatmarim = "the city of palmtrees" another name for 'Jericho'

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “palmtree” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PALM-TREE, noun

p'am-tree. The date tree, or Phoenix Lactylifera, a native of Asia and Africa, which grows to the highth of 60 and even of 100 feet, with an upright stem, crowned with a cluster of leaves or branches eight or nine feet long, extending all around like an umbrella. The fruit is in shape somewhat like an acorn. This tree transplanted will grow in Europe, but the fruit never ripens.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.