Commentary for Genesis 34:4

אל חמור אביו לאמור, “to his father Chamor, to say:” The word לאמור means that he wanted his father to speak to Yaakov on the subject. Alternately, the word is merely used to underline the urgency with which Shechem viewed the matter. He wanted his father to be insistent. We find a similar use of the word לאמור in connection with the wife of Potiphar in Genesis 39,14, where she wanted to underline that the fact that her husband had brought a Hebrew slave into the household resulted in her almost being raped.

קח לי — der Herr Schechem spricht ziemlich sultanisch. Dass sie seine Frau werde, scheint ihm nur von seinem Wunsche abzuhängen, war er doch der Gutsherr und sie — ein fremdes Judenmädchen.