Women's Names Are Often Trees

Judah got a wife for er, his first born, and her name was tamar. Tamar means pum tree in hebrew. Women's names were often trees because a tree symbolized fruitfulness. You want to, as a woman in their culture, bear fruit and have children. So you often named your girls after trees, hoping they would be fruitful. Not only that, but he goes off and marries a canaanite woman,. exactly like there's all kinds of things about this that are little whaky. Now let's keep reading a little bit.