Strong H2554חָמַס

to injure

Transliteration: châmas
Pronunciation: khaw-mas'
Morphology: Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to be violent; by implication to maltreat: - make {bare} shake {off} {violate} do {violence} take away {violently} {wrong} imagine wrongfully.

Detailed definition

STEP sense: to injure

Exact lexical definition: treat violently

Part of speech: verb

BDB context: [ חָמַס ] vb . treat violently , wrong Qal treat violently , wrong of physical wrong of ethical wrong both physical and ethical Niph . thy heels suffer violence

In the Bible

Strong H2554 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

violence2
imagine1
make1
shake1
take1
violate1
wrongeth1

First 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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