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
- Job 15:33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- Proverbs 8:36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.