BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2544
cha.mor — Hamor
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.33.19; father of: Shechem (H7927H) Also named: Emmor (Ἐμμόρ "Hamor" G1697) § Hamor = "he-ass" the Hivite prince of the city of Shechem when Jacob entered Palestine
12 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G1697
Emmor — Hamor
Ἑμμώρ (T, Ἐμμώρ, Rec. -όρ indecl. (Heb. חֲמוֹר), Emmor (Gen.33:19): Act.7:16.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4966
Suchem — Shechem
Συχέμ indecl. (Heb. שְׁכֶם), Shechem; 1. the son of Hamor (Gen.33:19): Act.7:16 b, Rec. 2. A city of Samaria (AV, Sychem; in LXX also sometimes Σίκιμα, -ων, as in FlJ): Act.7:16 a,b.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →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).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
