Strong's Lexicon

H2554

H2554 — חָמַס

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

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Hebrewchamacverb-stemOccurrences: 8TWOT: 678

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H2554
Word:חָמַס
Part of Speech:verb-stem
Etymology:a primitive root
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:8
Transliteration:chamac
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:khaw-mas'
Meaning:1. to be violent 2. (by implication) to maltreat
KJV Renderings:make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.

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[חָמַס] verb treat violently, wrong (Late Hebrew id., act violently, treat violently; Aramaic חֲמַס (rare) violently seize; Arabic [untranscribed source text 1808] is be hard, strict, rigorous) —

Qal Perfect 3 plural חָֽמְסוּ Ezek 22:26; Zeph 3:4 Imperfect יַחְמֹס Job 15:33, וַיַּחְמֹס Lam 2:6 תַּחְמֹ֑סוּ Job 21:27; Jer 22:3 Participle חֹמֵס Prov 8:36 — treat violently, wrong; —
1. of physical wrong: ׳ תַּחְ Jer 22:3 (|| תֹּנוּ) of wrong to widows and orphans; כַּגַּן שֻׂכּוֺ ׳ וַיַּח Lam 2:6 and hath done violence to his pavilion as to a garden (|| שִׁחֵת מֹעֲדוֺ ); so, figurative, of vine, wrong, i.e. fail to nourish, kill כַּגֶּפֶן ׳ יַח בִּסְרוֺ Job 15:33.
2. of ethical wrong, object תּוֺרָה Zeph 3:4; Exod 22:26 (both || חִלֵּל קֹדֶשׁ); compare מְזִמּוֺת עָלֵי תַּחְמֹ֑סוּ Job 21:27 the devices (wherewith) ye do me violence.
3. both physical and ethical חֹטְאִי חֹמֵס נַפְשׁוֺ Prov 8:36.
Niph`al Perfect 3 plural נֶחְמְסוּ Jer 13:22 thy heels suffer violence (|| נִגְלוּ שׁוּלַיִךְ).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חמס (g’hah-mas’)

Zephaniah 3:4

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

Job 15:33

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

Job 21:27

KJV: Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
EHCC: devices (hich ye wrongfully imagine

Jeremiah 22:3

KJV: 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.
EHCC: do no violence to the stranger,

Lamentations 2:6

KJV: 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.tabernacle: or, hedge
EHCC: And he hath violently taken away

Proverbs 8:36

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

Jeremiah 13:22

KJV: 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.made…: or, shall be violently taken away
EHCC: are thy skirts discovered, (and) thy heels

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