To injure
חָמַסStrong’s H2554chamas (cha-mas)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chamas is the Hebrew word usually translated “wrong”, “do violence” and “doing wrong to”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.”
Meaning
- To wrong, do violence to, treat violently, do wrongly(Qal) to treat violently, do wrong · (Niphal) to be treated violently
How it's translated
- he will wrong 1
- you do violence 1
- doing wrong to 1
- they have suffered violence 1
- you treat violently 1
- and he has treated violently 1
- they have done violence to 1
- they do violence to 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Proverbs 1
- Lamentations 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Zephaniah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- Proverbs 8:36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
- Jeremiah 13:22And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
- Jeremiah 22:3Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
- Lamentations 2:6And 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 to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
- Ezekiel 22:26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Hebrew dictionary
חָמַס chamas · to injure
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “injure” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IN'JURE, verb transitive
[Latin injuria, injury.]
- To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health.
- To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate.
- To slander, tarnish or impair, as reputation or character.
- To impair or diminish; to annoy; as happiness.
All definitions
- To give pain to; to grieve; as sensibility or feelings.
- To hurt or weaken; as, to injure a good cause.
- To impair; to violate; as, to injure rights.
- To make worse; as, great rains injure the roads.
- In general, to wrong the person, to damage the property, or to lessen the happiness of ourselves or others.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.