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# חֲמוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2544

**Hamor** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hamor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2544/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲמוֹר³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2544/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of Shechem (he-ass; v. RSK 220; Sem i. 449)—Gn 33:19; 34:2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 18(×2), 20, 24, 26; Jos 24:32; Ju 9:28.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hamor (7); of Hamor (6).

## In the verses

[Genesis 34:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.6/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֛א חֲמ֥וֹר אֲבִֽי־שְׁכֶ֖ם אֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֑ב לְדַבֵּ֖ר אִתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out Hamor the.father of.Shechem to Jacob to speak with him

*JPS 1917:* And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to speak with him.

[Genesis 34:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.18/#tree)

וַיִּֽיטְב֥וּ דִבְרֵיהֶ֖ם בְּעֵינֵ֣י חֲמ֑וֹר וּבְעֵינֵ֖י שְׁכֶ֥ם בֶּן־חֲמֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.good words their in the.eyes of.Hamor and in the.eyes of.Shechem the.son of.Hamor

*JPS 1917:* And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2544/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).