# חָמָס (chamas)

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

Strong’s H2555. 59 Old Testament occurrences.

violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain

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

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chamas-h2555

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/6/11) — The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- [Genesis 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/6/13) — And 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 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/16/5) — And 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 49:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/5) — Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
- [Exodus 23:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/1) — Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- [Deuteronomy 19:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/19/16) — If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
- [Judges 9:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/24) — That 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 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 save…
- [2 Samuel 22:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 m…
- [1 Chronicles 12:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Job 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/17) — Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
- [Job 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/7) — Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- [Psalms 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/16) — His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
- [Psalms 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/11/5) — The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
- [Psalms 18:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ma…
- [Psalms 25:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/19) — Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
- [Psalms 27:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Psalms 35:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/11) — False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
- [Psalms 55:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/9) — Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
- [Psalms 58:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/58/2) — Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
- [Psalms 72:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/14) — He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
- [Psalms 73:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/6) — Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- [Psalms 74:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/20) — Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
- [Psalms 140:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/1) — Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
- [Psalms 140:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/4) — Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
- [Psalms 140:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/11) — Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
- [Proverbs 3:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/31) — Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
- [Proverbs 4:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/17) — For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
- [Proverbs 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/6) — Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
- [Proverbs 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/11) — The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
- [Proverbs 13:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/2) — A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
- [Proverbs 16:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/29) — A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
- [Proverbs 26:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/6) — He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
- [Isaiah 53:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/9) — And 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 59:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 60:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/18) — Violence 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 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/7) — As 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 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/8) — For 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 51:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/35) — The 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 51:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Ezekiel 7:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/11) — Violence 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 7:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/23) — Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
- [Ezekiel 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Ezekiel 12:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 the…
- [Ezekiel 28:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/28/16) — By 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 45:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/9) — Thus 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 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/3/19) — Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have she…
- [Amos 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/3/10) — For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
- [Amos 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/3) — Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
- [Obadiah 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/obadiah/1/10) — For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
- [Jonah 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/8) — But 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 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/6/12) — For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
- [Habakkuk 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/2) — O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
- [Habakkuk 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/3) — Why 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 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/9) — They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
- [Habakkuk 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/8) — Because 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 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/17) — For 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 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/1/9) — In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
- [Malachi 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/2/16) — For 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…