Word

חֲמוֹר

Chămôwr · H2544 · Hebrew · proper noun · 13 occurrences

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Person

Hamorfirst named in Genesis 33:1913 verses

Meanings

Hamor

A man who was the father of Shechem

Examples
Genesis 33:19 He bought the plot of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.
Genesis 34:2 When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her and raped her.
Genesis 34:4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this young woman as a wife.”

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

7 occurrences in 3 groups

אָבfather 6
חִוִּיHivite 1
נָשִׂיאchief 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

דָבַרto speak, to say 1
יָצָאto go out 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הָרַגto kill 1
עָנָהto answer 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵלto, toward 3

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 4
אִישׁman, person, each 1
עַיִןeye, sight 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Domestic Animals001001002002: This code is inherited from the shared homograph on this spelling, the common noun for a donkey; this entry's own occurrences name a person, not an animal.
Names of People003001007: חֲמוֹר is the proper name Hamor, the Hivite prince who was the father of Shechem in the Genesis narrative (Genesis 33:19, 34:2, 34:4, 34:6, 34:8).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2544. Chamor III. חֲמוֺר proper name, masculine father of Shechem (he-ass; see RSK 220;…

H2544. Chamor
III. חֲמוֺר proper name, masculine father of Shechem (he-ass; see RSK 220; Sem i. 449) — Gen 33:19; Gen 34:2, Gen 34:4, Gen 34:6, Gen 34:8, Gen 34:13, Gen 34:18 (twice in verse); Gen 34:20, Gen 34:24, Gen 34:26; Jos 24:32; Jdg 9:28.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0