Genesis 34:24

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׁמְע֤וּ אֶל־חֲמוֹר֙ וְאֶל־שְׁכֶ֣ם בְּנ֔וֹ כָּל־יֹצְאֵ֖י שַׁ֣עַר עִיר֑וֹ וַיִּמֹּ֙לוּ֙ כָּל־זָכָ֔ר כָּל־יֹצְאֵ֖י שַׁ֥עַר עִירֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

wayyišmǝʿû ʾel-Ḥămôr wǝʾel-Škem bǝnô kāl-yōṣǝʾê šaʿar ʿîrô wayyimmōlû kāl-zākār kāl-yōṣǝʾê šaʿar ʿîrô

Grammar Details

• *wayyišmǝʿû*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they listened
• *ʾel*: preposition - to
• *Ḥămôr*: proper noun, masculine singular - Hamor
• *wǝʾel*: waw-conjunction + preposition - and to
• *Škem*: proper noun, masculine singular - Shechem
• *bǝnô*: noun, masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his son
• *kāl*: noun, masculine singular construct - all
• *yōṣǝʾê*: qal participle, masculine plural construct - who went out of
• *šaʿar*: noun, masculine singular construct - gate of
• *ʿîrô*: noun, feminine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his city
• *wayyimmōlû*: waw-consecutive + niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they were circumcised
• *zākār*: noun, masculine singular - male

Word Meanings

• *wayyišmǝʿû*: and they listened/heeded/obeyed
• *yōṣǝʾê* *šaʿar*: who went out of the gate/citizens/inhabitants

Referenced Verses

• 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,
• Gen 23:18 : 18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
• Isa 1:10-16 : 10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them]. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 ¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
• Matt 7:6 : 6 ‹Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.›
• Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.
• 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• Gen 17:23 : 23 ¶ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.