Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2555
חָמָס
chamaskhaw-mawce'
violence
60 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châmâç
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2555is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 20 of 39Old Testament books
- 31spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2555
violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
The King James renders it: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, [idiom] oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
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 "violence". It stands 60 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-one different ways.
The first use
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
Genesis 6:11חָמָֽס׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- violence35
- violences4
- from violence of3
- injustice3
- violence of3
- and violence2
- and violence of2
- the violence2
- and from violence1
- for violence1
- from violence1
- injustice my1
and 2 more, 60 uses in all
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.
The words it stands beside
All 60, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
31 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
- חָמָֽס׃8
- חָמָ֖ס7
- חָמָ֣ס5
- חָמָ֥ס5
- חָמָ֑ס3
- חָמָס֙3
- חֲמָסִ֣ים3
- וַחֲמַס־2
- חָ֭מָס2
- הֶחָמָ֖ס1
- הֶחָמָ֥ס׀1
- וְחָמָ֣ס1
and 19 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular38HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural4HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
Genesis
four uses
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
- חָמָֽס׃chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
- חָמָ֖סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
- חֲמָסִ֣יchamasinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: injustice my
Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.
- חָמָ֖סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Exodus
one use
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
- חָמָֽס׃ סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
Deuteronomy
one use
If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
- חָמָ֖סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
Judges
one use
in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
- חֲמַ֖סchamasnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: violence of
2 Samuel
two uses
My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.
- מֵחָמָ֖סmechamaspreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from violence
who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
- חֲמָסִ֖יםchamasimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: violences
1 Chronicles
one use
And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”
- חָמָס֙chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Job
two uses
Psalms
fourteen uses
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
- חֲמָס֥וֹchamasonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: violence his
The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
- חָמָ֑סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
- חָ֝מָ֗סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.
- חָמָ֣סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
- חָמָֽס׃chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
- חָמָ֑סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
- חָמָ֖סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
- חֲמַ֥סchamasnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: violence of
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.
- וּ֭מֵחָמָסumechamosconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from violence
Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
- חָמָ֥סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
- חָמָֽס׃chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
- חֲמָסִ֣יםchamasimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: violences
Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
- חֲמָסִ֣יםchamasimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: violences
May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
- חָמָ֥סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Proverbs
seven uses
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
- חָמָ֑סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
- חֲמָסִ֣יםchamasimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: violences
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
- חָמָֽס׃chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
- חָמָֽס׃chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence.
- חָמָֽס׃chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.
- חָ֭מָסchamosnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.
- חָמָ֣סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Isaiah
three uses
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
- חָמָ֣סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
- חָמָ֖סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
- חָמָס֙chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Jeremiah
four uses
As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
- חָמָ֣סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
- חָמָ֥סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.
- חֲמָסִ֤יchamasinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: violence my
Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year—and then another the next year—of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.
- וְחָמָ֣סvechamasconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and violence
Ezekiel
six uses
Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.
- הֶחָמָ֥ס׀hechamasthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the violence
Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
- חָמָֽס׃chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
- חָמָ֗סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.
- מֵחֲמַ֖סmechamaspreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from violence of
By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
- חָמָ֖סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
- חָמָ֤סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
Joel
one use
Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
- מֵֽחֲמַס֙mechamaspreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from violence of
Amos
two uses
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
- חָמָ֥סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
- חָמָֽס׃chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Obadiah
one use
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
- מֵחֲמַ֛סmechamaspreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from violence of
Jonah
one use
Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
- הֶחָמָ֖סhechamasthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the violence
Micah
one use
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
- חָמָ֔סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Habakkuk
six uses
How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
- חָמָ֖סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
- וְחָמָ֖סvechamasconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and violence
All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
- לְחָמָ֣סlechamaspreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for violence
Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
- וַחֲמַס־vachamas-conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and violence of
For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
- חֲמַ֤סchamasnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: violence of
- וַחֲמַס־vachamas-conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and violence of
Zephaniah
one use
On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.
- חָמָ֥סchamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
Malachi
one use
“For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.
- חָמָס֙chamasnoun · masculine singulartagged: violence
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.