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•HAMOR he-ass, a Hivite from whom Jacob purchased the plot of ground in which Joseph was afterwards buried (Genesis 33:19). He is called “Emmor” in Acts 7:16. His son Shechem founded the city of that name which Simeon and Levi destroyed because of his crime in the matter of Dinah, Jacob’s daughter (Genesis 34:20). Hamor and Shechem were also slain (ver. 26).
•HAMUL spared, one of the sons of Pharez, son of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:5). His descendants are called Hamulites (Numbers 26:21).
•HAMUTAL kinsman of the dew, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, wife of king Josiah, and mother of king Jehoahaz (2 Kings 23:31), also of king Zedekiah (2 Kings 24:18).
•HANAMEEL whom God has graciously given, the cousin of Jeremiah, to whom he sold the field he possessed in Anathoth, before the siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 32:6-12).
•HANAN merciful. (1.) A Benjamite (1 Chronicles 8:23). (2.) One of David’s heroes (1 Chronicles 11:43). (3.) Jeremiah 35:4. (4.) A descendant of Saul (1 Chronicles 8:38). (5.) One of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:46). (6.) One of the Levites who assisted Ezra (Nehemiah 8:7). (7.) One of the chiefs who subscribed the covenant (Nehemiah 10:22).
•HANANEEL God has graciously given, a tower in the wall of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3:1; 12:39). It is mentioned also in Jeremiah 31:38; Zechariah 14:10.
•HANANI God has gratified me, or is gracious. (1.) One of the sons of Heman (1 Chronicles 25:4, 25). (2.) A prophet who was sent to rebuke