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The Definition of the word Hamor

Hamor

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).


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