Strong's Hebrew Concordance

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

violence, wrong, cruelty, injustice

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