Strong's Hebrew · H2554

חָמַס

châmaç · khaw-mas'

make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.

Definition

to be violent; by implication, to maltreat

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 8 times in Scripture

Ezekiel 22:26

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.

Job 15:33

He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

Lamentations 2:6

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.

Jeremiah 22:3

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.

Job 21:27

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Proverbs 8:36

But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 13:22

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.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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