Definition
a primitive root; to be violent; by implication, to maltreat
Traditional renderings: make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
Traditional renderings: make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders חָמַס:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
8 total
- Job 15:33יַחְמֹ֣ס · stripped ofHe will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
- Job 21:27תַּחְמֹֽסוּ׃ · you would wrongBehold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Proverbs 8:36חֹמֵ֣ס · harmsBut he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
- Jeremiah 13:22נֶחְמְס֥וּ · has been exposedAnd 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.
- Jeremiah 22:3תַּחְמֹ֔סוּ · or violenceThis 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.
- Lamentations 2:6וַיַּחְמֹ֤ס · He has laid wasteHe 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.
- Ezekiel 22:26חָמְס֣וּ · do violence toHer 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.
- Zephaniah 3:4חָמְס֖וּ · they do violence toHer prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.