Genesis 34:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּבֹ֥א חֲמ֛וֹר וּשְׁכֶ֥ם בְּנ֖וֹ אֶל־שַׁ֣עַר עִירָ֑ם וַֽיְדַבְּר֛וּ אֶל־אַנְשֵׁ֥י עִירָ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר׃

Transliteration

wayyābōʾ Ḥămôr ûŠkem bǝnô ʾel-šaʿar ʿîrām wayǝdabbǝrû ʾel-ʾanšê ʿîrām lēʾmōr

Grammar Details

• *wayyābōʾ*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he came
• *Ḥămôr*: proper noun, masculine singular - Hamor
• *ûŠkem*: waw-conjunction + proper noun, masculine singular - and Shechem
• *bǝnô*: noun, masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his son
• *ʾel*: preposition - to
• *šaʿar*: noun, masculine singular construct - gate of
• *ʿîrām*: noun, feminine singular construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their city
• *wayǝdabbǝrû*: waw-consecutive + piel imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they spoke
• *ʾanšê*: noun, masculine plural construct - men of
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - saying

Word Meanings

• *šaʿar*: gate/entrance/city council meeting place
• *ʾanšê*: men/inhabitants/citizens

Referenced Verses

• Ruth 4:1 : 1 ¶ Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
• 2 Sam 15:2 : 2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was [so], that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city [art] thou? And he said, Thy servant [is] of one of the tribes of Israel.
• Job 29:7 : 7 ¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!
• Prov 31:23 : 23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
• Amos 5:10 : 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
• Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
• Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
• Zech 8:16 : 16 These [are] the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
• Gen 22:17 : 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
• Gen 23:10 : 10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
• Deut 17:5 : 5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, [even] that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.