Genesis 34:2
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What does Genesis 34:2 mean?
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 ) .
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.)
