Hebrew verb · H2554
חָמַס
chamaskhaw-mas'
to injure
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châmaç
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2554is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2554
to be violent; by implication, to maltreat
The King James renders it: make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chamas is rendered "to injure". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 15:33He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
Job 15:33יַחְמֹ֣ס
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in Job.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he has treated violently1
- doing wrong to1
- he will wrong1
- they do violence to1
- they have done violence to1
- they have suffered violence1
- you do violence1
- you treat violently1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַיַּחְמֹ֤ס1
- חֹמֵ֣ס1
- חָמְס֣וּ1
- חָמְס֖וּ1
- יַחְמֹ֣ס1
- נֶחְמְס֥וּ1
- תַּחְמֹ֔סוּ1
- תַּחְמֹֽסוּ׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqj2mp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
Job
two uses
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
- יַחְמֹ֣סyachmosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will wrong
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- תַּחְמֹֽסוּ׃tachmosuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you do violence
Proverbs
one use
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
- חֹמֵ֣סchomesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: doing wrong to
Jeremiah
two uses
And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
- נֶחְמְס֥וּnechmesuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have suffered violence
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
- תַּחְמֹ֔סוּtachmosuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you treat violently
Lamentations
one use
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
- וַיַּחְמֹ֤סvaiyachmosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has treated violently
Ezekiel
one use
Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
- חָמְס֣וּchamesuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have done violence to
Zephaniah
one use
Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.
- חָמְס֖וּchamesuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they do violence to
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.