חָמַס
ḥāmas
treat violently
Strong's H2554VerbHebrewTWOT 678

חָמַס (ḥāmas) is a Hebrew verb meaning treat violently. It appears 8 times in 6 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2554).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 678)

Range of meaning (TWOT 678)treat violently, wrong; be violent, maltreat; make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, imagine wrongfully
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

חָמַס verb: treat violently, wrong

Strong's H2554 חָמַס: to be violent; by implication, to maltreat
KJV:make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Job 15:33Proverbs 8:36Jeremiah 13:22

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