חָמָסchâmâç/khaw-mawce'/
HebrewH255559 occurrences (KJV)
violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
KJV renders it: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, [idiom] oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
Where it appears(showing the first 58 of 59)
- Gen 6:11The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Gen 6:13God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
- Gen 16:5Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.”
- Gen 49:5“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
- Exod 23:1“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
- Deut 19:16If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
- Judg 9:24that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
- 2 Sam 22:3God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.
- 2 Sam 22:49who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
- 1 Chr 12:17David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
- Job 16:17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
- Ps 7:16The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
- Ps 11:5Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
- Ps 18:48He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
- Ps 25:19Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
- Ps 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
- Ps 35:11Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
- Ps 55:9Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
- Ps 58:2No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
- Ps 72:14He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
- Ps 73:6Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
- Ps 74:20Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
- Ps 140:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;
- Ps 140:4Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
- Ps 140:11An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
- Prov 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
- Prov 10:6Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
- Prov 10:11The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
- Prov 13:2By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.
- Prov 16:29A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.
- Prov 26:6One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
- Isa 53:9They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
- Isa 59:6Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
- Isa 60:18Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
- Jer 6:7As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
- Jer 20:8For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.
- Jer 51:35May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.
- Jer 51:46Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
- Ezek 7:11Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There shall be nothing of value among them.
- Ezek 7:23“‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
- Ezek 8:17Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
- Ezek 12:19Tell the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
- Ezek 28:16By the abundance of your traffic they filled your insides with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.
- Ezek 45:9Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Joel 3:19Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
- Amos 3:10“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
- Amos 6:3Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
- Obad 1:10For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
- Jonah 3:8but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
- Mic 6:12Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
- Hab 1:2Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
- Hab 1:3Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
- Hab 1:9All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
- Hab 2:8Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
- Hab 2:17For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
- Zeph 1:9In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
- Mal 2:16For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.