Another interpretation: why seven? He said to him: see yourself as if you were placed within seven enclosures, sitting and judging, and I am being judged before you, and you are filled with compassion toward me. "And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him" (Genesis 33:4). There are dots above it. Rabbi Simeon ben Elazar said: wherever you find the writing exceeding the dots, you expound the writing; the dots exceeding the writing, you expound the dots. And here neither the writing exceeds the dots nor the dots exceed the writing, which teaches that he did not kiss him with his whole heart. Rabbi Yannai says: it teaches that he did not seek to kiss him but to bite him, and Jacob's neck became like marble, and the teeth of that wicked man were blunted. And what does the text mean by "and they wept"? This one wept over his neck and that one wept over his teeth.
Why Jacob Bowed Seven Times and the Dotted Kiss of Esau
Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 133:11
דָּבָר אַחֵר, לָמָּה שֶׁבַע, אָמַר לוֹ, הֱוֵי רוֹאֶה אֶת עַצְמְךָ כְּאִלּוּ אַתְּ נָתוּן לִפְנִים מִשִּׁבְעָה קִינְקְלִין וְיוֹשֵׁב וְדָן וַאֲנִי נִדּוֹן לְפָנֶיךָ וְאַתְּ מִתְמַלֵּא עָלַי רַחֲמִים. (בראשית לג ד) וַיָּרָץ עֵשָׂו לִקְרָאתוֹ וְגוֹ' וַיִּשָּׁקֵהוּ, נָקוּד עָלָיו אָמַר רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן אֶלְעָזָר, כָּל מָקוֹם שֶׁאַתָּה מוֹצֵא כְּתָב רַבֶּה עַל הַנְּקֻדָּה אַתָּה דּוֹרֵשׁ אֶת הַכְּתָב הַנְּקֻדָּה רַבָּה עַל הַכְּתָב אַתָּה דּוֹרֵשׁ אֶת הַנְּקֻדָּה וְכָאן לֹא הַכְּתָב רַבֶּה עַל הַנְּקֻדָּה וְלֹא הַנְּקֻדָּה רַבָּה עַל הַכְּתָב מְלַמֵּד שֶׁלֹּא נְשָׁקוֹ בְּכָל לִבּוֹ רַבִּי יַנָּאי אוֹמֵר, מְלַמֵּד שֶׁלֹּא בִּקֵּשׁ לְנָשְׁקוֹ אֶלָּא לְנָשְׁכוֹ וְנַעֲשָׂה צַוָּארוֹ שֶׁל שָׁיִשׁ וְקָהוּ שִׁנָּיו שֶׁל אוֹתוֹ רָשָׁע, וּמַה תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר וַיִּבְכּוּ, זֶה בָּכָה עַל צַוָּארוֹ וְזָה בָּכָה עַל שִׁנָּיו.