H2555: חָמָס
châmâç · pronounced khaw-mawce' · “violence”
Definition
violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
KJV translates it as: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, [idiom] oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
Word origin: from H2554 (חָמַס);
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2555 is translated
- violence ×41
- the violence of ×8
- violences ×4
- injustice ×3
- my ×2
- his ×1
- is violence ×1
Bible verses with H2555 (châmâç)
Châmâç appears in 59 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 6:11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
- Genesis 49:5
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
- Exodus 23:1
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Deuteronomy 19:16
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
- Judges 9:24
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
- 2 Samuel 22:3
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
- 2 Samuel 22:49
And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
- 1 Chronicles 12:17
And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
- Job 16:17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- Psalms 7:16
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
- Psalms 11:5
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
- Psalms 18:48
He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
- Psalms 25:19
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
- Psalms 27:12
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
- Psalms 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
- Psalms 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
- Psalms 58:2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
- Psalms 72:14
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
- Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- Psalms 74:20
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
- Psalms 140:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
- Psalms 140:4
Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
All 59 references
- Psalms 140:11
- Proverbs 3:31
- Proverbs 4:17
- Proverbs 10:6
- Proverbs 10:11
- Proverbs 13:2
- Proverbs 16:29
- Proverbs 26:6
- Isaiah 53:9
- Isaiah 59:6
- Isaiah 60:18
- Jeremiah 6:7
- Jeremiah 20:8
- Jeremiah 51:35
- Jeremiah 51:46
- Ezekiel 7:11
- Ezekiel 7:23
- Ezekiel 8:17
- Ezekiel 12:19
- Ezekiel 28:16
- Ezekiel 45:9
- Joel 3:19
- Amos 3:10
- Amos 6:3
- Obadiah 1:10
- Jonah 3:8
- Micah 6:12
- Habakkuk 1:2
- Habakkuk 1:3
- Habakkuk 1:9
- Habakkuk 2:8
- Habakkuk 2:17
- Zephaniah 1:9
- Malachi 2:16