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The meaning of חָמַס

Understanding châmaç reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.

Definition

make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully. - to be violent - by implica...

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חָמַס

Phonetickhaw-mas'
Transliterationchâmaç
Grammar Code
H:V
Hebrew Verb
Strong's Definition
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully. - to be violent - by implication, to maltreat 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

Scripture References

Occurrences in the Bible

8 total references
ReferenceText
Job 21:27

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

Word: חָמַס (châmaç)
Proverbs 8:36

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

Word: חָמַס (châmaç)
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.

Word: חָמַס (châmaç)
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.

Word: חָמַס (châmaç)
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.

Word: חָמַס (châmaç)

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