Violence
חָמָסStrong’s H2555chamas (cha-mas)
Appears in 59 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chamas is the Hebrew word usually translated “violence”, “injustice” and “violence of”. It appears in 59 verses of the Old Testament.
“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”
Meaning
- Violence, wrong, cruelty, injustice
How it's translated
- violence 40
- injustice 3
- violence of 3
- from violence of 3
- and violence 2
- and violence of 2
- injustice my 1
- from violence 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 14
- Proverbs 7
- Ezekiel 6
- Habakkuk 5
- Genesis 4
- Jeremiah 4
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 6:13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 16:5And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
- Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
- Exodus 23:1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Deuteronomy 19:16If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
- Judges 9:24That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
All 59 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חָמָס chamas · violence
violence, wrong, cruelty, injustice
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “violence” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VI'OLENCE, noun
[Latin violentia.]
- Physical force; strength of action or motion; as the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.
- Moral force; vehemence.
- Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds.“The earth was filled with violence” Genesis 6:11
- Eagerness; vehemence.
All definitions and other forms of “violence”
- Injury; infringement.
- Injury; hurt.“Do violence to no man” Luke 3:14
- Ravishment; rape.
VI'OLENCE, verb transitive
To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence [Little used.]
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.