Strong's Hebrew · H2554
חָמַס
châmaç · khaw-mas'
Definitionto be violent; by implication, to maltreat
Derivationa primitive root;
KJV usagemake bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
Occurrences8 in the KJV · 8 verses
חָמַס in Scripture
Job 15:33
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Proverbs 8:36
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Jeremiah 13:22
And 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 22:3
Thus 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 2:6
And 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 22:26
Her 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 3:4
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.