Topic: Persons Of The Bible --  Dinah

The name "Dinah" means "judged" in Hebrew. The name "Dinah" also means "vindicated" or "acquitted."

Dinah was the daughter of Jacob by Leah (Genesis 30:21) (B.C. about 1751), and sister of Simeon and Levi (Gen. 30:21).

She accompanied her father from Mesopotamia to Canaan, and, having ventured among the inhabitants, was violated by Shechem the son of Hamor. Hamor was the chieftain of the territory in which Dinah's father had settled, (Gen. 34). Shechem proposed to make the usual reparation by paying a sum to the father and marrying her. (Genesis 34:12) This proposal was accepted, the sons of Jacob demanding, as a condition of the proposed union, the circumcision of the Shechemites. They therefore assented; and on the third day, when the pain and fever resulting from the operation were at the highest, Simeon and Levi, own brothers of Dinah, attacked the Shechemites unexpectedly, slew all the males, and plundered their city (Gen. 34). Jacob makes frequent reference to this deed of blood with abhorrence and regret (Gen. 34:30; 49:5-7). Dinah is mentioned among the rest of Jacob's family that went down into Egypt (Gen. 46:8, 15).

Derived from Smith's and Easton's Bible Dictionary

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