chamas · do violence, wrong

What it means

chamas (חָמַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “do violence, wrong”.

To do violence, to mistreat; to tear away by force.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To mistreat brutally; seize by force.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• have done violence ×2
• He will violently tear off ×1
• does violence ×1
• have suffered violence ×1
• he has done violence ×1
• treat with violence ×1
• which you do me violence ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×2
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Job 15:33

  He will violently tear off, like the vine, his unripe grapes, and cast off, like the olive tree, his blossom.

• Job 21:27

  Look, I know your thoughts, and the plans with which you do me violence.

• Proverbs 8:36

  But whoever sins against me does violence to his own soul; all who hate me love death.”

• Jeremiah 13:22

  And if you say in your heart: “Why have these things happened to me?” For the multitude of your iniquity your skirts have been uncovered, your heels have suffered violence.

• Jeremiah 22:3

  Thus says YHWH: Do justice and righteousness, and rescue the one who is robbed from the hand of the oppressor; and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow do not wrong, do not treat with violence; and innocent blood do not shed in this place.

• Lamentations 2:6

  And he has done violence, as to a garden, to his booth; he has destroyed his meeting place; YHWH has made them forget in Zion appointed feast and Sabbath, and he has spurned, in the indignation of his anger, king and priest.

• Ezekiel 22:26

  Her priests have done violence to my instruction and have profaned my holy things; between the holy and the common they have not distinguished, and between the unclean and the clean they have not taught; and from my Sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, and I am profaned in their midst.

• Zephaniah 3:4

  Her prophets are reckless, men of treachery; her priests have profaned what is holy, they have done violence to the instruction.