Hamor
cha.mor is the personal name of Shechem’s father, named in accounts involving Jacob’s family and the city of Shechem.
The attested forms function consistently as a proper personal name, identifying Shechem’s father in the Genesis narrative and later references to the field at Shechem and to “the men of Hamor.”
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Personal name identifying Shechem’s father · dominant
All supplied tokens are tagged Noun · Proper. In Genesis 34:4 the APB renders Shechem addressing this person as “Hamor his father,” while Genesis 34:6 presents him as going out to Jacob to speak; Genesis 34:26 names him alongside Shechem in their killing. Joshua 24:32 again identifies the sons from whom Jacob purchased the field as “the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem,” and Judges 9:28 refers to “the men of Hamor the father of Shechem.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB normally presents the proper name as “Hamor,” often with “the father of Shechem” or “his father.” In Judges 9:28 it preserves the name within the collective expression “the men of Hamor”.