Who is…
Hamor

also known as: Emmor

Hebrew: חֲמוֹר —transliteration: Chamor —meaning: he-ass; donkey —occurrences: 13 in Genesis, Joshua and Judges

Hamor is the Hivite from whom Jacob purchased the plot of ground in which Joseph was afterwards buried (Genesis 33:19).

Hamor 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 (Genesis 34:20). Hamor and his son Shechem were also slain.

And they killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and went away. —Gen. 34:26

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