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People of the Bible

Shechem

also called Sychem

Family

Father
Hamor

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The son of Hamor the Hivite (Gen. 33:19; 34).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 15 verses

Genesis
33:18, 33:19, 34:2, 34:4, 34:6, 34:8, 34:11, 34:13, 34:18, 34:20, 34:24, 34:26
Joshua
24:32
Judges
9:28
Acts
7:16

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.