Topic
Hamor
15 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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- Genesis 33:19Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave Jacob buys a piece of property from
And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.
- Genesis 34:20Easton · Smith
¶ And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
- Genesis 34:26Smith · Nave Murdered by the sons of Jacob
And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.
- Joshua 24:32ISBE · Nave Jacob buys a piece of property from
¶ And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of…
- Acts 7:16Easton · Nave Called EMMOR
And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
- Genesis 34:2Smith
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
- Genesis 34:4Smith
And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
- Genesis 34:6Smith
¶ And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
- Genesis 34:8Smith
And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
- Genesis 34:13Smith
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
- Genesis 34:18Smith
And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
- Genesis 34:24Smith
And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
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- Genesis 49:6 Nave Murdered by the sons of Jacob
- Judges 9:22–49 ISBE
- Judges 9:28 Nave Jacob buys a piece of property from
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
He-ass, a Hivite from whom Jacob purchased the plot of ground in which Joseph was afterwards buried (Gen. 33:19). He is called “Emmor” in Acts 7:16. His son Shechem founded the city of that name which Simeon and Levi destroyed because of his crime in the matter of Dinah, Jacob’s daughter (Gen. 34:20). Hamor and Shechem were also slain (ver. 26).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 10 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 3 references
ha'-mor (chamor, "an ass"; Emmor): Hamor was the father of Shechem from whom Jacob bought a piece of ground on his return from Paddan-aram for one hundred pieces of silver (Ge 33:19), and the burial place of Joseph when his body was removed from Egypt to Canaan (Jos 24:32). "The men of Hamor" were inhabitants of Shechem, and suffered a great loss under Abimelech, a prince over Israel (Jud 9:22-49). Dinah, Jacob's daughter, was criminally treated by Hamor, who requested her to be given to him in marriage, in which plan he had the cooperation of his father, Shechem. The sons of Jacob rejected their proposition and laid a scheme by which the inhabitants of the city were circumcised, and in the hour of helplessness slew all the males, thus wreaking special vengeance upon Hamor and his father Shechem. It is mere conjecture to claim that Hamor and Dinah were personifications of early central Palestinian clans in sharp antagonism, and that the course of Simeon and Levi was really the treachery of primitive tribes. Because the word Hamor means "an ass" and Shechem "a shoulder," there is no reason for rejecting the terms as designations of individuals and considering the titles as mere tribal appellations.
Byron H. Dement
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.