Genesis 34:8
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And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing for your daughter: give her him to wife:

The soul.

Genesis 34:3 And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.

1 Kings 11:2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.

Psalm 63:1 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Psalm 84:2 my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

Psalm 119:20 My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times.

Context
The Defiling of Dinah
7Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter. 8And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing for your daughter: give her him to wife:9And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.…
Cross References
Genesis 34:7
Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter.

Genesis 34:9
And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.

Job 7:2
As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;

Jeremiah 22:27
And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up their mind to return thither.

Lexicon
But Hamor
חֲמ֖וֹר (ḥă·mō·wr)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2544: Hamor -- father of Shechem

said
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר (way·ḏab·bêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

to them,
אִתָּ֣ם (’it·tām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

“My son
בְּנִ֗י (bə·nî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

Shechem
שְׁכֶ֣ם (šə·ḵem)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7927: Shechem -- 'ridge', a district in Northern Palestine, also a son of Hamor

longs for
חָֽשְׁקָ֤ה (ḥā·šə·qāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2836: To cling, join, to love, delight in, elliptically, to deliver

your daughter.
בְּבִתְּכֶ֔ם (bə·ḇit·tə·ḵem)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

Please
נָ֥א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

give
תְּנ֨וּ (tə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

her
אֹתָ֛הּ (’ō·ṯāh)
Direct object marker | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

to him
ל֖וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

as his wife.
לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ (lə·’iš·šāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female


Additional Translations
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto him to wife.

And Emmor spoke to them, saying, Sychem my son has chosen in his heart your daughter; give her therefore to him for a wife,

And Hamor spoke to them, saying, My son Shechem's soul cleaves to your daughter: I pray you, give her to him as wife.

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her unto him to wife.

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her to him for a wife.

Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, 'Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give her, I pray you, to him for a wife,
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