Strong’s H2555

חָמָס

chamas · 59 Old Testament occurrences

King James renderings: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, [idiom] oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.

Every Old Testament occurrence

• Genesis 6:11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Genesis 6:13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will des…
• Genesis 16:5And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despi…
• Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
• Exodus 23:1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
• Deuteronomy 19:16If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
• Judges 9:24That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which s…
• 2 Samuel 22:3The 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 save…
• 2 Samuel 22:49And 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 m…
• 1 Chronicles 12:17And 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…
• Job 16:17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
• Job 19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
• Psalms 7:16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
• Psalms 11:5The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
• Psalms 18:48He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent ma…
• Psalms 25:19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
• Psalms 27:12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
• Psalms 35:11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
• Psalms 55:9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
• Psalms 58:2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
• Psalms 72:14He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
• Psalms 73:6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
• Psalms 74:20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
• Psalms 140:1Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
• Psalms 140:4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
• Psalms 140:11Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
• Proverbs 3:31Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
• Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
• Proverbs 10:6Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
• Proverbs 10:11The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
• Proverbs 13:2A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
• Proverbs 16:29A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
• Proverbs 26:6He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
• Isaiah 53:9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
• Isaiah 59:6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act…
• Isaiah 60:18Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy g…
• Jeremiah 6:7As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief…
• Jeremiah 20:8For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
• Jeremiah 51:35The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, sh…
• Jeremiah 51:46And 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…
• Ezekiel 7:11Violence 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…
• Ezekiel 7:23Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
• Ezekiel 8:17Then 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…
• Ezekiel 12:19And 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 the…
• Ezekiel 28:16By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as p…
• Ezekiel 45:9Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away yo…
• Joel 3:19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have she…
• Amos 3:10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
• Amos 6:3Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Obadiah 1:10For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
• Jonah 3:8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the vi…
• Micah 6:12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
• Habakkuk 1:2O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
• Habakkuk 1:3Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up stri…
• Habakkuk 1:9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
• Habakkuk 2:8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the…
• Habakkuk 2:17For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence…
• Zephaniah 1:9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
• Malachi 2:16For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: th…