Genesis 34:8 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 34:8

But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto him to wife.

KJV

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

They betray no jealousy of the powerful shepherds; on the contrary, they show every desire to establish friendly intercourse. But their conduct was unjustifiable in neither expressing regret nor restoring Dinah to her family; and this great error was the true cause of the negotiations ending in so unhappy a manner.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר	vay.da.Ber	and he spoke	H1696 →
חֲמ֖וֹר	cha.Mor	Hamor	H2544 →
אִתָּ֣ם	'i.Tam	with them	H854 →
לֵאמֹ֑ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
שְׁכֶ֣ם	she.Khem	Shechem	H7927 →
בְּנִ֗י	be.Ni	son my	H1121 →
חָֽשְׁקָ֤ה	cha.she.Kah	it loves	H2836 →
נַפְשׁוֹ֙	naf.Sho	self his	H5315 →
בְּבִתְּכֶ֔ם	be.vi.te.Khem	<in> daughter your	H1323 →
תְּנ֨וּ	te.Nu	give	H5414 →
נָ֥א	na'	please	H4994 →
אֹתָ֛הּ	'o.Tah	<obj.> her	H853 →
ל֖וֹ	lo	to <the> him
לְאִשָּֽׁה׃	le.'i.Shah	to a wife	H802 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 63:1
O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
leads to
- Psalms 42:1–2
  As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 84:2
  My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 143:6
  I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
- Matthew 6:33
  But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Psalms 91:2
  I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Through
Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
leads to
- Isaiah 26:9
  My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Through
1 Kings 11:2
These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to…
leads to
- Exodus 34:16
  And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.
- Deuteronomy 7:3–4
  Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,