Lexical Definition

‎חָמַס‎ châmaç (khaw-mas') to injure ^H:V
a primitive root

make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.

• to be violent
• by implication, to maltreat

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

See Greek: ἀδικέω · ἀθετέω · ἀσεβέω · ἐκκαίω · ἐπίκειμαι · παραδειγματίζω · τρυγάω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎חָמַס‎] verb treat violently, wrong (Late Hebrew id., act violently, treat violently; Aramaic ‎חֲמַס‎ (rare) violently seize; Arabic is be hard, strict, rigorous) —

Qal Perfect 3 plural ‎חָֽמְסוּ‎ Ezek 22:26; Zeph 3:4 Imperfect ‎יַחְמֹס‎ Job 15:33, ‎וַיַּחְמֹס‎ Lam 2:6 ‎תַּחְמֹ֑סוּ‎ Job 21:27; Jer 22:3 Participle ‎חֹמֵס‎ Prov 8:36 — treat violently, wrong; —

1. of physical wrong: ‎׳‎‎תַּחְ‎ Jer 22:3 (|| ‎תֹּנוּ‎) of wrong to widows and orphans; ‎כַּגַּן שֻׂכּוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎וַיַּח‎ Lam 2:6 and hath done violence to his pavilion as to a garden (|| ‎שִׁחֵת מֹעֲדוֺ‎); so, figurative, of vine, wrong, i.e. fail to nourish, kill ‎כַּגֶּפֶן‎ ‎׳‎‎יַח‎ ‎בִּסְרוֺ‎ Job 15:33.

2. of ethical wrong, object ‎תּוֺרָה‎ Zeph 3:4; Exod 22:26* (both || ‎חִלֵּל קֹדֶשׁ‎); compare ‎מְזִמּוֺת עָלֵי‎ ‎תַּחְמֹ֑סוּ‎ Job 21:27 the devices (wherewith) ye do me violence.

3. both physical and ethical ‎חֹטְאִי‎ ‎חֹמֵס נַפְשׁוֺ‎ Prov 8:36. Niph`al Perfect 3 plural ‎נֶחְמְסוּ‎ Jer 13:22 thy heels suffer violence (|| ‎נִגְלוּ שׁוּלַיִךְ‎).

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