SHECHEM (Person)

1. Son of Hamor the Hivite. He raped Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and was later killed along with his father and all the males of his town by Simeon and Levi (Gn 34; Jos 24:32).

2. One of Gilead’s six sons, a descendant of Joseph through Manasseh’s line, and the founder of the Shechemite family (Nm 26:31; Jos 17:2).

3. One of Shemida’s four sons from Manasseh’s tribe (1 Chr 7:19).