People of the Bible
Dinah
1749 BC –
Family
- Father
- Jacob (Israel)
- Mother
- Leah
- Brothers and sisters
- Issachar, Judah (patriarch), Levi (patriarch), Reuben, Simeon, Zebulun
- Half-brothers and sisters
- Asher, Benjamin (patriarch), Dan, Gad, Joseph (son of Jacob), Naphtali
In the story
- Birth of Dinah · 1749 BC
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Judged; vindicated, daughter of Jacob by Leah, and sister of Simeon and Levi (Gen. 30:21). She was seduced by Shechem, the son of Hamor, the Hivite chief, when Jacob’s camp was in the neighbourhood of Shechem. This led to the terrible revenge of Simeon and Levi in putting the Shechemites to death (Gen. 34). Jacob makes frequent reference to this deed of blood with abhorrence and regret (Gen. 34:30; 49:5-7). She is mentioned among the rest of Jacob’s family that went down into Egypt (Gen. 46:8, 15).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 8 verses
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.