Hamor
חֲמוֹרStrong’s H2544chamor (cha-mor)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chamor is the Hebrew word usually translated “hamor”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.33.19
How it's translated
- hamor 13
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 10
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 34:2And 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 34:4And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
- Genesis 34:6And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
- Genesis 34:8And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
- Genesis 34:13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
- Genesis 34:18And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
Hebrew dictionary
חֲמוֹר chamor · 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.