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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

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  • Job 16:17
    Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
  • Job 19:7
    Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
  • Psalms 7:16
    His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
  • Psalms 11:5
    The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
  • Psalms 18:48
    He 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 25:19
    Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
  • Psalms 27:12
    Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
  • Psalms 35:11
    False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
  • Psalms 55:9
    Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
  • Psalms 58:2
    Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.