# H2555 חָמָס

חָמָס (châmâç), Strong’s H2555: violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain KJV: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, [idiom] oppressor, unrighteous, violence…. Occurs 60 times.

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*châmâç* — violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain

KJV: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, [idiom] oppressor, unrighteous, violence…

Derived from [חָמַס châmaç](https://besorah.bible/word/H2554) (to be violent)

Occurs 60 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָמָס n.m. violence, wrong

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 6:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=11) — The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- [Genesis 6:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=13) — God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will…
- [Genesis 16:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=5) — Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had…
- [Genesis 49:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=5) — “Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
- [Exodus 23:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=1) — “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
- [Deuteronomy 19:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/19?v=16) — If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
- [Judges 9:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=24) — that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech…
- [2 Samuel 22:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=3) — God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior…
- [2 Samuel 22:49](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=49) — who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the…
- [Isaiah 53:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/53?v=9) — They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any…