Châmaç — H2554

Definition

verb

to be violent; by implication, to maltreat

1. to wrong, do violence to, treat violently, do wrongly
1. (Qal) to treat violently, do wrong
1. of physical wrong
2. of ethical wrong
3. of physical and ethical wrong
2. (Niphal) to be treated violently

Usually translated as

do violence, make bare, shake off, violate, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• adikéō (G91)
• athetéō (G114)
• asebéō (G764)
• ekkaíō (G1572)
• epíkeimai (G1945)
• paradeigmatízō (G3856)
• trygáō (G5166)

Occurrences

Châmaç occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (2), Proverbs (1), Jeremiah (2), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (1), Zephaniah (1)

• Job 15:33 — He shall shake off (יַחְמֹ֣ס) his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
• Job 21:27 — Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine (תַּחְמֹֽסוּ) against me.
• Proverbs 8:36 — But he that sinneth against me wrongeth (חֹמֵ֣ס) his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
• Jeremiah 13:22 — And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare (נֶחְמְס֥וּ).
• Jeremiah 22:3 — Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence (תַּחְמֹ֔סוּ) to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
• Lamentations 2:6 — And he hath violently taken away (וַיַּחְמֹ֤ס) his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
• Ezekiel 22:26 — Her priests have violated (חָמְס֣וּ) my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
• Zephaniah 3:4 — Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence (חָמְס֖וּ) to the law.