Gênesis 34:2

2 Viu-a Siquém, filho de Hamor o heveu, príncipe da terra; e, tomando-a, deitou-se com ela e humilhou-a.

Gênesis 34:2 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 34:2

And when Shechem the son of Hamor
From whom the city had its name, near which Jacob and his family now were:

the Hivite, prince of the country;
Hamor was an Hivite, which was one of the nations of the land of Canaan, and this man was the prince or a principal man of that nation, as well as of Shechem. Josephus F3 calls him a king: when the son of this man

saw her;
that is, Dinah, what a beautiful person she was, and was enamoured with her:

he took her:
by force, as the Targum of Jonathan:

and lay with her, and defiled her;
or "humbled" or "afflicted her" F4; and it is a rule with the Jews, that every such act, which is done by force, is called an humiliation and affliction F5: the child begotten in this act of fornication is said F6 by them to be Asenath, who was had into Egypt, and brought up by Potipherah's wife as her daughter, and afterwards married to Joseph, ( Genesis 41:45 Genesis 41:50 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F3 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 21. sect. 1.)
F4 (hneyw) , (kai etapeinwsen authn) , Sept. & afflixit eam, Pagninus, Montanus.
F5 Gerundensis apud Munster, & Drusium in loc.
F6 Pirke Eliezer, ut supra. (c. 33. fol. 42. 2.)

Gênesis 34:2 In-Context

1 Diná, filha de Léia, que esta tivera de Jacó, saiu para ver as filhas da terra.
2 Viu-a Siquém, filho de Hamor o heveu, príncipe da terra; e, tomando-a, deitou-se com ela e humilhou-a.
3 Assim se apegou a sua alma a Diná, filha de Jacó, e, amando a donzela, falou-lhe afetuosamente.
4 Então disse Siquém a Hamor seu pai: Consegue-me esta donzela por mulher.
5 Ora, Jacó ouviu que Siquém havia contaminado a Diná sua filha. Entretanto, estando seus filhos no campo com o gado, calou-se Jacó até que viessem.
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