King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2554
Transliteration: chamas
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-mas')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to treat violently or wrong
Meaning: to treat violently or wrong
Word Summary
chamas: to treat violently or wrong
Original Word: חָמַסTransliteration: chamas
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-mas')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to treat violently or wrong
Meaning: to treat violently or wrong
Strong's Concordance
make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrongA primitive root; to be violent; by implication, to maltreat -- make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2554. chamas
[חָמַס] verb treat violently, wrong (Late Hebrew id., act violently, treat violently; Aramaic חֲמַס (rare) violently seize; Arabic is be hard, strict, rigorous) —
Qal Perfect3plural חָֽמְסוּ Ezekiel 22:26; Zephaniah 3:4; Imperfect יַחְמֹס Job 15:33, וַיַּחְמֹס Lamentations 2:6; תַּחְמֹ֑סוּ Job 21:27; Jeremiah 22:3; Participle חֹמֵס Proverbs 8:36; — treat violently, wrong; —
1 of physical wrong: ׳תַּחְ Jeremiah 22:3 ("" תֹּנוּ) of wrong to widows and orphans; ׳וַיַּח שֻׂכּוֺ כַּגַּן Lamentations 2:6 and hath done violence to his pavilion as to a garden ("" מֹעֲדוֺ שִׁחֵת); so, figurative, of vine, wrong, i.e. fail to nourish, kill בִּסְרוֺ ׳יַח כַּגֶּפֶן Job 15:33.
2 of ethical wrong, object תּוֺרָה Zephaniah 3:4; Exodus 22:26 (both "" קֹדֶשׁ חִלֵּל); compare תַּחְמֹ֑סוּ עָלֵי מְזִמּוֺת Job 21:27 the devices (wherewith) ye do me violence.
3 both physical and ethical נַפְשׁוֺ חֹמֵס חֹטְאִי Proverbs 8:36.
Niph`al Perfect3plural נֶחְמְסוּ Jeremiah 13:22 thy heels suffer violence ("" שׁוּלַיִךְ נִגְלוּ).