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Strong's numbers

חָמָס (H2555)

châmâç

khaw-mawce'

from חָמַס; violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain; cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, [idiom] oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

חָמָס n.m. violence, wrong

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

59 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Genesis 6:11
    The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
  • Genesis 6:13
    And 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 16:5
    And 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 49:5
    Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
  • Exodus 23:1
    Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
  • Deuteronomy 19:16
    If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
  • Judges 9:24
    That 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 22:3
    The 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 22:49
    And 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 12:17
    And 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.