Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H2554: חָמַס

châmaç · pronounced khaw-mas' · “to injure”

Definition

to be violent; by implication, to maltreat

KJV translates it as: make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.

Word origin: a primitive root;

Extended definition

1) to wrong, do violence to, treat violently, do wrongly
1a) (Qal) to treat violently, do wrong
1a1) of physical wrong
1a2) of ethical wrong
1a3) of physical and ethical wrong
1b) (Niphal) to be treated violently

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H2554 is translated

  • he will wrong ×1
  • you do violence ×1
  • is doing wrong to ×1
  • they have suffered violence ×1
  • you treat violently ×1
  • he has treated violently ×1
  • they have done violence to ×1
  • they do violence to ×1

Bible verses with H2554 (châmaç)

Châmaç appears in 8 verses.

  • Job 15:33

    He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

  • Job 21:27

    Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

  • Proverbs 8:36

    But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

  • Jeremiah 13:22

    And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

  • Jeremiah 22:3

    Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Lamentations 2:6

    And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

  • Ezekiel 22:26

    Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

  • Zephaniah 3:4

    Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

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