Usually translated as
violence, cruelty, violent, wrong, false, cruel, damage, injustice, oppressor, unrighteous
Occurrences
Châmâç occurs 60 times in 59 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (4), Exodus (1), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (1), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Chronicles (1), Job (2), Psalms (14), Proverbs (7), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (4), Ezekiel (6), Joel (1), Amos (2), Obadiah (1), Jonah (1), Micah (1), Habakkuk (5), Zephaniah (1), Malachi (1)
- Genesis 6:11 — The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence (חָמָֽס).
- Genesis 6:13 — And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (חָמָ֖ס) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 16:5 — And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong (חֲמָסִ֣י) be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
- Genesis 49:5 — Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty (חָמָ֖ס) are in their habitations.
- Exodus 23:1 — Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous (חָמָֽס) witness.
- Deuteronomy 19:16 — If a false (חָמָ֖ס) witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
- Judges 9:24 — That the cruelty (חֲמַ֖ס) done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
- 2 Samuel 22:3 — The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence (מֵחָמָ֖ס).
- 2 Samuel 22:49 — And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man (חֲמָסִ֖ים).
- 1 Chronicles 12:17 — And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong (חָמָס֙) in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
- Job 16:17 — Not for any injustice (חָמָ֣ס) in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:7 — Behold, I cry out of wrong (חָ֭מָס), 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 (חֲמָס֥וֹ) shall come down upon his own pate.
- Psalms 11:5 — The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence (חָמָ֑ס) 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 (חָ֝מָ֗ס) man.
- Psalms 25:19 — Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel (חָמָ֣ס) 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 (חָמָֽס).
- Psalms 35:11 — False (חָמָ֑ס) 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 (חָמָ֖ס) and strife in the city.
- Psalms 58:2 — Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence (חֲמַ֥ס) of your hands in the earth.
- Psalms 72:14 — He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence (וּ֭מֵחָמָס): and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
- Psalms 73:6 — Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence (חָמָ֥ס) covereth them as a garment.
- Psalms 74:20 — Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty (חָמָֽס).
- Psalms 140:1 — Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent (חֲמָסִ֣ים) man;
- Psalms 140:4 — Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man (חֲמָסִ֣ים); who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
- Psalms 140:11 — Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent (חָמָ֥ס) man to overthrow him.
- Proverbs 3:31 — Envy thou not the oppressor (חָמָ֑ס), and choose none of his ways.
- Proverbs 4:17 — For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence (חֲמָסִ֣ים).
- Proverbs 10:6 — Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence (חָמָֽס) covereth the mouth of the wicked.
- Proverbs 10:11 — The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence (חָמָֽס) covereth the mouth of the wicked.
- Proverbs 13:2 — A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence (חָמָֽס).
- Proverbs 16:29 — A violent (חָ֭מָס) man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
- Proverbs 26:6 — He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage (חָמָ֣ס).
- Isaiah 53:9 — And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence (חָמָ֣ס), neither was any deceit in his mouth.
- Isaiah 59:6 — Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence (חָמָ֖ס) is in their hands.
- Isaiah 60:18 — Violence (חָמָס֙) shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
- Jeremiah 6:7 — As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence (חָמָ֣ס) and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
- Jeremiah 20:8 — For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence (חָמָ֥ס) and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
- Jeremiah 51:35 — The violence (חֲמָסִ֤י) done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
- Jeremiah 51:46 — And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence (וְחָמָ֣ס) in the land, ruler against ruler.
- Ezekiel 7:11 — Violence (הֶחָמָ֥ס) is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
- Ezekiel 7:23 — Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence (חָמָֽס).
- Ezekiel 8:17 — Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence (חָמָ֗ס), and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
- Ezekiel 12:19 — And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence (מֵחֲמַ֖ס) of all them that dwell therein.
- Ezekiel 28:16 — By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence (חָמָ֖ס), and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
- Ezekiel 45:9 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence (חָמָ֤ס) and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
- Joel 3:19 — Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence (מֵֽחֲמַס֙) against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
- Amos 3:10 — For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence (חָמָ֥ס) and robbery in their palaces.
- Amos 6:3 — Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence (חָמָֽס) to come near;
- Obadiah 1:10 — For thy violence (מֵחֲמַ֛ס) against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.