Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. Tamar enters the narrative as Er's wife — her name means date palm, and she is the character through whom the covenant line of Judah will continue. Matthew 1:3 places Tamar in the genealogy of Jesus. The application: the woman whose name means date palm is the woman through whom the messianic line passes. Her story is not incidental; it is the story on which the covenant's continuation depends.

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