Lexicon
חֲמוֹר
cha.mor
H2544
N:N-M-P Hebrew

Hamor

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3
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Hebrew
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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.”

Senses in use

  1. 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”.

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