TBESH · H2555
חָמָס · cha.mas · violence
violence, wrong, cruelty, injustice
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cha.mas H2555
חָמָס (cha.mas) means “violence” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חָמָס Hebrew · H2555 60 tagged occurrences in 59 verses
Pronunciation guide: khaw-mawce' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H2554 (חָמַס); violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
KJV glosses: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, [idiom] oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
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How translators render H2555
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| violence | 16 |
| of violence | 14 |
| because of the violence | 3 |
| with violence | 3 |
| a violent | 2 |
| and violence | 2 |
| and your violence | 2 |
| from violent | 2 |
| your violence | 2 |
| a false | 1 |
| a malicious | 1 |
| and from the violence | 1 |
| and his violence | 1 |
| from violence | 1 |
| hostile | 1 |
| in order that the crime | 1 |
| is violence | 1 |
| may the violence done to me | 1 |
| may the wrong done to me | 1 |
| on violence | 1 |
| their violence | 1 |
| will violence | 1 |
| with vicious | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| violence | 13 |
| of violence | 5 |
| me from the violent | 4 |
| and violence | 3 |
| the violence | 3 |
| with violence | 3 |
| but violence | 2 |
| for the violence | 2 |
| of cruelty | 2 |
| a violent | 1 |
| all for violence | 1 |
| and for the violence | 1 |
| and from the violence | 1 |
| and his violent | 1 |
| because of the violence | 1 |
| cruelty | 1 |
| damage | 1 |
| false | 1 |
| if a false | 1 |
| injustice | 1 |
| me from violence | 1 |
| me with cruel | 1 |
| my wrong | 1 |
| no violence | 1 |
| of thee with violence | 1 |
| of wrong | 1 |
| that the cruelty | 1 |
| the violent | 1 |
| thou not the oppressor | 1 |
| to be an unrighteous | 1 |
| up violence | 1 |
| wrong | 1 |
Verses containing H2555
Page 1 of 2. 59 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 6:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
Read word by word - Genesis 6:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 16:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Genesis 49:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.
Read word by word - Exodus 23:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 19:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
Read word by word - Judges 9:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 22:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 22:49
· BSB · 1 occurrence
who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 12:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.18
- Job 16:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
Read word by word - Job 19:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Read word by word - Psalms 7:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 7.17
- Psalms 11:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
Read word by word - Psalms 18:48
· BSB · 1 occurrence
who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 18.49
- Psalms 25:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.
Read word by word - Psalms 27:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
Read word by word - Psalms 35:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
Read word by word - Psalms 55:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 55.10
- Psalms 58:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 58.3
- Psalms 72:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.
Read word by word - Psalms 73:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
Read word by word - Psalms 74:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
Read word by word - Psalms 140:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 140.2
- Psalms 140:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 140.5
- Psalms 140:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 140.12
- Proverbs 3:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
Read word by word - Proverbs 4:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Read word by word - Proverbs 10:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Read word by word - Proverbs 10:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Read word by word - Proverbs 13:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence.
Read word by word - Proverbs 16:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.
Read word by word - Proverbs 26:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.
Read word by word - Isaiah 53:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 59:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 60:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 6:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 20:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:46
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 7:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 7:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 8:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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!
Read word by word - Ezekiel 12:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 28:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 45:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’
Read word by word - Joel 3:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.19
- Amos 3:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
Read word by word - Amos 6:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
Read word by word - Obadiah 1:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
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