Shechem

In the Book of Genesis, Dinah (; ) was the seventh child and only named daughter of Leah and Jacob. The episode of her rape by Shechem, son of a Canaanite or Hivite prince, and the subsequent revenge of her brothers Simeon and Levi, commonly referred to as the rape of Dinah, is told in Genesis 34.

male human biblical figure in Judges 8:31, king of Shechem

Shechem ( ; , ; ), also spelled Sichem ( ; in the Septuagint, ) and other variants, was an ancient city in the Southern Levant. Described in ancient Egyptian inscriptions from the 19th century BC as a part of Retjenu, it is also recorded as a Canaanite city in the 14th century BCE Amarna letters.

thumb|270px|Abimelech spying on Isaac and Rebekah; dish with serrated edge; majolica ceramics – [[Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon]]

funerary monument in Shechem

Biblical place at the West Bank

God(s) worshipped in ancient Canaan

son of Gideon

site of an ancient Canaanite/Israelite city in the West Bank

ritual of spreading salt on conquered cities to symbolize a curse on their re-inhabitation

male human biblical figure in Judges 9:26–41, son of Ebed (aka Eved)

thumb|Amarna letter. Letter from Labaya (ruler of Shechem) to the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III or his son Akhenaten. 14th century BCE. From Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. British Museum. ME 29844. EA 252 Labaya (Labayu or '''Lib'ayu''') was a Canaanite prince and the ruler of Shechem in the central hill country of southern Canaan during the Amarna Period (c. 1350 BC). He lived contemporaneously with the pharaoh Akhenaten. Labaya is mentioned in several of the Amarna Letters (abbreviated "EA", for 'el Amarna'). He is the author of letters EA 252–54.

place in Nablus, State of Palestine

ancient Eqyptian rock inscription

mayor of Shechem in Abimilech's time per Judges 9:28-41