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Strong’s H2554 · Hebrew

חָמַס

châmaç · khaw-mas'

Origin a primitive root;

Meaning 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.

In 8 verses of the King James Version

  1. Job 15:33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
  2. Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
  3. Proverbs 8:36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
  4. Jeremiah 13:22And 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.
  5. Jeremiah 22:3Thus 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.
  6. Lamentations 2:6And 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.
  7. Ezekiel 22:26Her 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.
  8. Zephaniah 3:4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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