# חָמַס (chamas)

Israeli respelling: cha-mas. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2554. 8 Old Testament occurrences.

to be violent; by implication, to maltreat

King James renderings: make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chamas-h2554

## Occurrences

- [Job 15:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/33) — He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
- [Job 21:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/27) — Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- [Proverbs 8:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/36) — But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
- [Jeremiah 13:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 n…
- [Lamentations 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/6) — And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath cau…
- [Ezekiel 22:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/26) — Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither hav…
- [Zephaniah 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/4) — Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.