Genesis 34:2 - Exposition

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the country, saw her (literally, and Shechem … saw her, and ) he took her . "Dinah paid the full penalty of her carelessness. She suffered the fate which Sarah and Rebekah encountered in the land of Pharaoh and Abimelech; she was seen and taken by the son of the prince" (Kalisch); forcibly, i.e. against her will in the first instance, though not, it is apparent, without the blandishments of a lover. And lay with her, and defiled her —literally, oppressed her , offered violence to her, whence humbled her— ἐταπείνωσεν ( LXX .), vi opprimens (Vulgate).