Strong's Hebrew · H2554
H2554 châmaç
חָמַס
khaw-mas'
to injure
Looking for Greek G2554 kakopoiéō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H2554. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
châmaç appears 8 times in Scripture, in Job, Proverbs, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel and Zephaniah. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to be violent; by implication, to maltreat
In the King James Version
make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 8 times in Scripture
“Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.”
“He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.”
“He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.”
“This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.”
“Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.”
“But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.””
“And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.”
“Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
