Strong’s H2555 · Hebrew
חָמָס
châmâç · khaw-mawce'
Origin from חָמַס (H2554);
Meaning violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
In the King James Version cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, [idiom] oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
In 58 verses of the King James Version
1–50 of 58
- Genesis 6:11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 16:5And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
- Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
- Exodus 23:1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Deuteronomy 19:16If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
- Judges 9:24That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
- 2 Samuel 22:3The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
- 2 Samuel 22:49And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
- 1 Chronicles 12:17And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
- Job 16:17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- Psalms 7:16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
- Psalms 11:5The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
- Psalms 18:48He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
- Psalms 25:19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
- Psalms 27:12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
- Psalms 35:11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
- Psalms 55:9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
- Psalms 58:2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
- Psalms 72:14He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
- Psalms 73:6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- Psalms 74:20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
- Psalms 140:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
- Psalms 140:4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
- Psalms 140:11Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
- Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
- Proverbs 10:6Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
- Proverbs 10:11The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
- Proverbs 13:2A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
- Proverbs 16:29A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
- Proverbs 26:6He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
- Isaiah 53:9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
- Isaiah 59:6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
- Isaiah 60:18Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
- Jeremiah 6:7As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
- Jeremiah 20:8For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
- Jeremiah 51:35The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
- Jeremiah 51:46And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
- Ezekiel 7:11Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
- Ezekiel 7:23Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
- Ezekiel 8:17Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
- Ezekiel 12:19And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
- Ezekiel 28:16By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
- Ezekiel 45:9Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
- Joel 3:19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
- Amos 3:10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
- Amos 6:3Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
- Obadiah 1:10For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
- Jonah 3:8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
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.