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Greek/Hebrew Definitions



Strong's #2554: chamac (pronounced khaw-mas')

a primitive root; to be violent; by implication, to maltreat:--make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châmas

1) to wrong, do violence to, treat violently, do wrongly

1a) (Qal) to treat violently, do wrong

1a1) of physical wrong

1a2) of ethical wrong

1a3) of physical and ethical wrong

1b) (Niphal) to be treated violently

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 678



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

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: "I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against"
Proverbs 8:36: " me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death."
Jeremiah 13:22: "are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare."
Jeremiah 22:3: "of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow,"
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 caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths"
Ezekiel 22:26: " have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between"
Zephaniah 3:4: "her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law."









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