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Lexicon :: Strong's H2555 - ḥāmās

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חָמָס
Transliteration
ḥāmās
Pronunciation
khaw-mawce'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: TWOT- 678a

Strong’s Definitions

חָמָס châmâç, khaw-mawce'; from H2554; violence; by implication, wrong; by metonymy unjust gain:—cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, × oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x

The KJV translates Strong's H2555 in the following manner: violence (39x), violent (7x), cruelty (4x), wrong (3x), false (2x), cruel (1x), damage (1x), injustice (1x), oppressor (with H376) (1x), unrighteous (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x
The KJV translates Strong's H2555 in the following manner: violence (39x), violent (7x), cruelty (4x), wrong (3x), false (2x), cruel (1x), damage (1x), injustice (1x), oppressor (with H376) (1x), unrighteous (1x).

  1. violence, wrong, cruelty, injustice

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָמָס châmâç, khaw-mawce'; from H2554; violence; by implication, wrong; by metonymy unjust gain:—cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, × oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
STRONGS H2555: Abbreviations
† חָמָס noun masculinePsalm 7:17 violence, wrong — absolute ח׳ Genesis 6:11+ 44 times; construct חֲמַס Judges 9:24 7 times; suffix חֲמָסִי Genesis 16:5; Jeremiah 51:35 (in both = wrong done to me); חֲמָסוֺ Psalm 7:17; plural חֲמָסִים 2 Samuel 22:49 3 times; — violence, specifically of physical violence Judges 9:24; 2 Samuel 22:3 (not || Psalm 18:3), Obadiah 10; Habakkuk 1:9; Jeremiah 51:35 (of Chaldeans), Habakkuk 2:8, 17 (twice in verse); Joel 4:19; Psalm 72:14; but also wrong, including injurious language, harsh treatment, etc. Genesis 16:5 (J, of wrong done to Sarah by, Hagar), Job 19:7; Malachi 2:16; in general of rude wickedness of men, their noisy, wild, ruthlessness Micah 6:12; Habakkuk 1:2; Zephaniah 1:9; Proverbs 10:6, 11; Proverbs 13:2; Proverbs 26:6 + Ezekiel 7:11 (si vera lectio, see Co), || שֹׁד Amos 3:10; Habakkuk 1:3; Jeremiah 6:7; Jeremiah 20:8; Ezekiel 45:9; Isaiah 60:18, || רִיב Psalm 55:10, || עָמָל Psalm 7:17, || גַּאֲוָה Psalm 73:6, אֹהֵב ח׳ Psalm 11:5 (|| רָשָׁע), denied, of servant of י׳ Isaiah 53:9, בארץ ח׳ Jeremiah 51:46, compare Genesis 6:11, 13 (P), Ezekiel 8:17; Ezekiel 12:19; מָֽלְאוּ מַחֲשַׁכֵּיאֶֿרֶץ נְאוֺת ח׳ Psalm 74:20, הָעִיר מָֽלְאָה ח׳ Ezekiel 7:23; Ezekiel 28:16, שֶׁבֶת ח׳ Amos 6:3 is (probably) enthronement of violence; כְּלֵי ח׳ Genesis 49:5 (poem) instrument, weapons, of violence; — other phrases are: בְּיָדַיִם ח׳ Jonah 3:8; 1 Chronicles 12:17, compare Job 16:17, יְדֵיכֶם ח׳ Psalm 58:3 and בְּכַפֵּיהֶם ח׳ פֹּעַל Isaiah 59:6; עֵד ח׳ i.e. a witness that promotes violence and wrong Exodus 23:1 (JE), Deuteronomy 19:16, עֵדֵי ח׳ Psalm 35:11; עֵדֵי שֶׁקֶר וִיפֵהַ חָמָס Psalm 27:12; שׂנאת ח׳ Psalm 25:19 — violence; אִישׁ חָמָס = violent man Psalm 18:49 (2 Samuel 22:49 has the later חמסים א׳, compare below) Psalm 140:12; Proverbs 3:31; Proverbs 16:29; אישׁ חמסים (later) Psalm 140:2; Psalm 140:5; 2 Samuel 22:49; יֵין חֲמָסִים Proverbs 4:17 i.e. wine gained by violence (|| לֶחֶם רֶשַׁע).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:11; 6:11; 6:13; 16:5; 16:5; 49:5

Exodus

23:1

Deuteronomy

19:16

Judges

9:24; 9:24

2 Samuel

22:3; 22:49; 22:49; 22:49

1 Chronicles

12:17

Job

16:17; 19:7

Psalms

7:17; 7:17; 7:17; 11:5; 18:3; 18:49; 25:19; 27:12; 35:11; 55:10; 58:3; 72:14; 73:6; 74:20; 140:2; 140:5; 140:12

Proverbs

3:31; 4:17; 10:6; 10:11; 13:2; 16:29; 26:6

Isaiah

53:9; 59:6; 60:18

Jeremiah

6:7; 20:8; 51:35; 51:35; 51:46

Ezekiel

7:11; 7:23; 8:17; 12:19; 28:16; 45:9

Amos

3:10; 6:3

Obadiah

1:10

Jonah

3:8

Micah

6:12

Habakkuk

1:2; 1:3; 1:9; 2:8; 2:17

Zephaniah

1:9

Malachi

2:16

H2555

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Strong's Number H2555 matches the Hebrew חָמָס (ḥāmās),
which occurs 60 times in 59 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 6:11–Oba 1:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:11 - But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 - And the Lord God said to Noe, [fn]A period of all men is come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sara said to Abram, I am injured by thee; I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonoured before her. The Lord judge between me and thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:5 - Symeon and Levi, brethren, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - Thou shalt not receive a vain report: thou shalt not agree with the unjust man to become an unjust witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:16 - And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24 - to bring the injury done to the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and to lay their blood upon their brother Abimelech, who slew them, and upon the men of Sicima, because they strengthened his hands to slay his brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:3 - my God; he shall be to me my guard, I will trust in him: he is my protector, and the horn of my salvation, my helper, and my sure refuge; thou shalt save me from the unjust man.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:49 - and bringing me out from my enemies: and thou shalt set me on high from among those that rise up against me: thou shalt deliver me from [fn]the violent man.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:17 - (LXX 12:18) And David went out to meet them, and said to them, If ye are come peaceably to me, let my heart be at peace with you: but if ye are come to betray me to my enemies unfaithfully, the God of your fathers look upon it, and reprove it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:17 - Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:7 - Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:16 - (LXX 7:17) His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:5 - (LXX 10:5) The Lord tries the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:48 - (LXX 17:49) my deliverer from angry enemies: thou shalt set me on high [fn]above them that rise up against me: thou shalt deliver me from the unrighteous man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:19 - (LXX 24:19) Look upon mine enemies; for they have been multiplied; and they have hated me with unjust hatred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:12 - (LXX 26:12) Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:11 - (LXX 34:11) Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I knew not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:9 - (LXX 54:10) Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen iniquity and gainsaying in the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:2 - (LXX 57:3) For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:14 - (LXX 71:14) He shall redeem their souls from usury and injustice: and their name shall be precious before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:6 - (LXX 72:6) Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:20 - (LXX 73:20) Look upon thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:1 - (LXX 139:1) For the end, a Psalm of David. (139:2) Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man; deliver me from the unjust man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:4 - (LXX 139:5) Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner; rescue me from unjust men; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:11 - (LXX 139:12) A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:31 - Procure not the reproaches of bad men, neither do thou covet their ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:17 - For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:6 - The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but untimely grief shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:11 - There is a fountain of life in the hand of a righteous man; but destruction shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:2 - A good man shall eat of the fruits of righteousness: but the lives of transgressors shall perish before their time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:29 - A transgressor tries to ensnare friends, and leads them in ways that are not good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:6 - He that sends a message by a foolish messenger procures for himself a reproach from his own ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:9 - And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death; [fn] for he practised no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:6 - Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:18 - And injustice shall no more be heard in thy land, nor destruction nor misery in thy coasts; but thy walls shall be called Salvation, and thy gates Sculptured Work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7 - As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:8 - For I will laugh with my bitter speech, I will call upon rebellion and misery: for the word of the Lord is become a reproach to me and a mockery all my days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:35 - (LXX 28:35) My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; and my blood shall be upon the Chaldeans dwelling there, shall Jerusalem say.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:11 - pride has sprung up, and will break the staff of the wicked one, and that not with tumult, nor with haste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23 - And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen this. Is it a little thing to the house of Juda to practise the iniquities which they have practised here? for they have filled the land with iniquity: and, behold, these are as scorners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19 - And thou shalt say to the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem on the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains: for all that dwell in it are ungodly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:16 - Of the abundance of thy merchandise thou hast filled thy storehouses with iniquity, and hast sinned: therefore thou hast been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought thee out of the midst of the stones of fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:9 - Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, ye princes of Israel: remove injustice and misery, execute judgment and justice; take away oppression from my people, saith the Lord God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:19 - (LXX 4:19) Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Juda, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:10 - And she knew not what things would come against her, saith the Lord, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:3 - Ye who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false sabbaths;

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:10 - Because of the slaughter and the sin committed against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

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